Word: factualism
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...would seem to me, that the only basis for criticism of the articles, which attempt to evaluate and report at the same time, would be either directed to a factual lapse, or a failure to support a judgment I make about the people here. I know of only one factual lapse--an inadvertent reference to the grand jury's failure to indict in the second (kidnap) trial of Milam and Bryant as an acquittal; and on reviewing the pieces, the second and third which were the ones with judgments. I find all the judgments on emotionalism supported...
Your Nov. 14 Press section contains a factual error respecting SEC's proxy rule revision proposal. Contrary to the [American Civil Liberties Union] report from which you quoted, it is untrue that a reporter or publisher may be prosecuted under commission rules, present or proposed, for publishing information from trade or other independent sources about a company involved in a proxy contest or the contestants themselves...
...been very critical of most of your stories on agriculture, I would like to be equally quick to compliment you most highly for your farm-income article in the Nov. 7 issue; it is factual and written with the clear-cut seriousness which the subject deserves...
...resounded with debate on civil liberties. The need is not for more debate, but for debate of better quality, and, above all, for some answers to the very difficult questions raised by the presence of Communism and other forms of organized evil in a free society. The factual Yarmolinsky report, for example, made it clear how far the U.S. Government still is from working out standards and procedures that will at the same time protect itself from subversion and its employees from persecution...
...this situation changed radically after 1914. The increased activity of the State Department since then has been reflected in the work of the Historical Division. For the first time, it started to lose ground to the increasing mass of factual material which it was expected to systematize and to make public. World War II and the Korean conflict added to the burden. Consequently, the Division is now 15 years behind in its work, the most recent volume on foreign relations dealing with...