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...editors TIME recently assigned the special task of collecting as much "Dry" news as possible. Reason: to guard against the alleged "bias" of the great Metropolitan papers which TIME minutely scans...
...complaints began to take shape in the Senate corridors against the Lobby Committee's obvious Dry bias. The committee was accused of stalling its inquiry of Wet organizations to give Dry organizations time to strip their letter files of all incriminating documents...
...Illinois, for example are canvassing their students on the liquor question. Tulane University in Louisiana will hold a straw vote, and it may be assumed that the general results of the poll will give an accurate and fair summary of the student view of prohibition. No cry of sectional bias can be raised when the final results are tabulated. The present college poll is sufficiently broad in scope to form a complete index of collegiate opinion on a subject which is of the utmost interest to students...
...today's CRIMSON, can necessarily perceive Him only through the glasses of Oklahoma. The Saturday Evening Post, College Humor, and sundry, other periodicals who spend some little amount of printer's ink from time to time worrying about this same Person are also colored by their own personal bias...
President Hoover's judgments are colored, as are those of all statesmen, by the bias of his personal experiences. The part played by successful business men in the affairs of the government, which were at one time entirely controlled by the political whims of the right party boss, is increasing. Lamont and Mellon hold Cabinet posts, Dawes goes to London: Young and Morgan put Germany on a paying basis. On the committee, composed to stabilize business after the Wall Street debacle, are men all with a practical insight into the social and economic aspects affecting every section of the country...