Word: factualism
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...stayed in a luxurious penthouse placed at his disposal by Amadeo Barletta Jr., son of a rich Batista crony. The columnist visited Strongman Batista twice and was steered around town by Batista's American Pressagent Edmund Chester. Pundit Pearson irritated Cuban readers with his naive reporting and prize factual boners, e.g., Pearson wrote that Batista "once threw out Cuba's most hated dictator," although, as every Cuban schoolchild knows, Batista had nothing to do with Dictator Gerardo Machado's ouster in 1933. Quipped El Mundo Columnist Carlos Robreno: If Batista's cronies had given "one more...
...that this broad aim of renewing interest in teaching has been achieved, one need speak only to Charles H. Taylor, Lea Professor of Medieval History. Before the coming of General Education, Taylor gave History 1, a popular but factual course, studying for which required such aids as chronological outlines...
...forced march, which cost scores of lives, is the factual backbone of ex-Newsman Joe Klaas's first novel. Like the book's hero Jim Weis, Seattle-born Author Klaas got into World War II in one of Britain's Eagle Squadrons as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot. After Pearl Harbor. Joe Klaas, like Hero Weis, was "sold" to the U.S. Army Air Force for $35,000.* Like Weis, he was shot down in Tunisia by Luftwaffe fighters, resold by an Arab to the Germans for $20, spent two years behind Nazi fences, and finally took...
During the Geneva Conference, Pravda and Izvestia ran pictures of the Big Four, along with factual accounts of what Western leaders had said at the conference, including such strong language as President Eisenhower's remark that "international Communism . . . seeks ... to subvert lawful governments." Eisenhower's proposal for aerial inspection of defense installations, as well as his report to the U.S. people after he returned from Geneva, was printed in full in Russian papers...
...Possibly Still Is. " "[At the hearings] some of the reported factual information was admitted by Dr. Taylor to be true, but he denied that his motivation was based on a sympathy for or support of the Communist philosophy . . . Dr. Taylor also categorically denied that he had ever been a member of an espionage ring or of the Communist Party . . . The board found it difficult to believe that an individual who was reported to have been strongly pro-Communist throughout the 1930s, a Communist Party member in Hawaii in 1939, and an admitted friend of an espionage agent could have...