Word: biases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confusion of conflicting propagandas, a Babel of voices" coming from political parties, labor unions business organizations, patriotic societies' by word of mouth from millions of individuals, the analysts promised to give laymen a technique to test which current propagandas are good and which bad to examine the bias of channels through which they flow-press, radio, movies, churches, schools...
...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...
Agitated by members of the California Bar since 1935, the new law goes beyond statutes in Arizona, Indiana, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming, where a judge may be challenged but affidavits as to the judge's bias must accompany the challenge. How well the California law will work out in practice is open to question. California lawyers pointed out this week that a lawyer will hesitate to challenge a judge before whom he is likely to have to continue to appear. Abuse of the new statute may come from criminal lawyers seeking to stall...
...pleasing picture of NLRB impartiality is not shared throughout the land. The three-man Labor Board-Chairman J. (for Joseph) Warren Madden flanked by two men named Smith, Donald Wakefield and Edwin Seymour (no kin)-is generally rated proLabor. And NLRB's many enemies say this pro-Labor bias extends down through its 21 regional directors. NLRB's decisions have been roundly criticized not only for bias but for inconsistency. It has even been damned by A. F. of L. sympathizers...
...April there flared the Walsh-Sweezy dismissal. Resolving that political bias had no influence on the case, the Council claimed teaching versus research was the issue. The proposal of an examination of the primal problem of education showed that the Council was accepting its responsibilities to the hilt...