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...equally incredible. During the first hearing, when McDowell was the judge, Dwyer blithely put forth an Alice-in-Wonderland case, full of ghostly "evidence" and interesting inconsistencies. In spite of the vigorous protests of Dr. Van Waters' attorney, McDowell solemnly accepted his deputy's offerings, partly through his undeniable bias and partly through his lack of legal training...
With a faint, embarrassed smile, Eccles walked back to the stand. A.P.'s attorneys tried to lay the complaint to Eccles' "personal bias and prejudice." Eccles conceded that, through the Eccles Investment Co., his family owns 44% of the stock of First Security Corp. of Ogden (Utah), which advertises itself as "the largest banking institution in the intermountain states." But he insisted that that had nothing to do with his fear that Transamerica was a monopoly...
...case of Philosophy Professor Herbert Phillips, the question becomes a good deal more difficult. The only place where this question could have been solved was Professor Phillips' own class room. Here the committee found that "... his practice is to warn his students of his bias and to request that they evaluate his lecture in that light...
Generally speaking, Red Gloves lacks bias-and takes on a certain breadth-by dealing with political types rather than political tenets, and by suggesting that it takes a good many kinds of people to make up even a Communist world. The essential struggle between idealist and realist, absolutist and compromiser, is indeed common to all movements; what might be considered "anticommunist" about the play is its picturing a lack of charity that begins at home...
Henry Adams had damned the place with the faintest of praise. "Harvard College," he wrote, "was probably less hurtful than any other university ... It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile . . ." In effect, "the school created a type but not a will. Four years of Harvard College, if successful, resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped...