Word: biases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Pressed for details, Editor Buré reminisced: "As far as I can recall, the incident took place in 1904. Clemenceau was then director of L'Aurore, and I was one of his editors. The caustic political sheet Le Gil Bias, which Mortier directed, published one day a very sarcastic attack on Clémenceau in which his character was described as being 'fierce as that of a tiger...