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Metcalf stated that he had no bias in favor of trained librarians, and would always get "the best man for the job." He indicated that for some posts it would be imperative to engage men who had studied to be librarians, but that for others, such as heads of music libraries, it would be impossible to find trained men with sufficient knowledge of the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Library Director to Coordinate 80 Separate Units in the University | 2/19/1938 | See Source »

TIME has quite as strict a conscience as Readers Phillips and Hampton. TIME differs from them on the intellectual questions of what constitute 1) obscenity or prudery, 2) bias on Catholicism and Communism. TIME'S own intelligence, like its own conscience, will remain its guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...buys mill-ends and wears hand-me-downs. ... It is that dogtown on the other side of the railroad tracks that smells so badly every time I he wind changes." Mindful of the "bad smells"* that have come from the South recently, and with an avowed pro-underdog bias. Author Caldwell and Photographer Bourke-White went down to look things over. After a year and a half of investigation they returned with a skeletonized, unemotional array of case histories, native opinion, commentary and camera evidence on the drearines's and degradation of plantation workers' lives that will chill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speaking Likenesses | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...Havell in forming the syndicate which paid approximately $200,000 for the Shaw's Review of Reviews Corp. is David P. Page, co-managing editor of The Digest. He will edit the new weekly. Mr. Havell thinks The Digest flopped because it reflected too much editorial bias. His remedy will be reversion to the classic neutrality of juxtaposed newspaper comment which characterized the Literary Digest of the late '20s when it had 1,400,000 circulation. Beginning Nov. 13 the Literary Digest's, cover will appear bedecked in action color photographs. Its interior will contain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Digest Without Polls | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...Institute, a non-profit corporation is forbidden by its charter to engage in propaganda or attempt to influence legislation, but it proudly claims one bias: that good propagandas are those which conform to American principles of democracy, i. e., political, economic, social, religious freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Propaganda Probe | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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