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...know which proportion of the members of each course actually returned questionnaires. The public opinion polls consistently over-estimates the Republican vote because their interviewers fail to contact enough working class respondents. We can suppose that omission of some part of the membership of a course may bias the results in a similar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Questions Confy Guide | 9/26/1950 | See Source »

...lance writer, who was regarded by friends in Fleet Street as an idealistic left-winger, walked out of his Moscow office one day, never came back. Later, Pravda published a letter from Johnstone announcing his resignation, both as editor and as a British citizen, because of the anti-Soviet bias of British "warmongers." A few months later, Assistant Editor Robert Dagleish also resigned via a letter to Pravda and cast his lot with the Soviets. Lean, keen-eyed W. Richard Jones, assistant news editor of the London Daily Telegraph, went to Moscow as editor of Ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Sale | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...with the British Empire or the United States." Foreign Minister Shigemitsu, who signed the Japanese surrender, was "a man of confirmed liberal views, consistently opposed to any policy of aggression and aggrandisement." To explain his own action in remaining in the government in spite of his anti-war bias, Author Kase declares that he "was told that under the circumstances my resignation could not be accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why Disturb Tranquillity? | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

There is little doubt that Author Paul loves the Rue de la Huchette, its food, its people and its liveliness. His weakness as a reporter of it is not so much his frank bias as his congenital tendency to smother his account in cuteness. Springtime is Paris seen through the bottom of a wineglass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Man's Paris | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...twisting, coloring, perverting and distorting" the truth, of a "campaign of vilification against this committee probably unparalleled in the history of congressional investigations." "Starting with nothing," it stated, "Senator McCarthy plunged headlong forward, desperately seeking to develop some information which, colored with distortion and fanned by a blaze of bias, would forestall a day of reckoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Returned in Kind | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

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