Word: factualism
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...report of his Commission on Industrial Relations in Great Britain, basic document for next winter's Congressional debates on altering the National Labor Relations Act. It is a cogent, dispassionate, impartial treatise, the product of nine good minds working in politely self-critical harmony.- Its findings were purely factual. It contained no shadow of moralizing for the benefit of U. S. employers, employes or politicians...
...lives in The Hague, is writing a book to be called The Life of Modern Man. Some years ago. Dr. Neurath devised a method of conveying social and economic statistics by means of quantitative symbols called "pictographs" or "isotypes"-a method which has been widely adopted in factual journalism...
...other biographies, Emil Ludwig takes factual material already at hand -in this case Ernest K. Lindley's The Roosevelt Revolution and Half Way with Roosevelt-draws his own "psychological" picture. No study of Franklin Roosevelt in house slippers, the result is something like an expensive, formal portrait by a visiting European painter, something like an official cinema shot...
...from the point of view of the group I, or perhaps an exceptionally bright group II, man and hence play into the hands of the tutoring schools. English 30 and 40 are fine examples of this. Everywhere one turns in English, one runs into an hour exam, usually a factual one. Midyears and finals are more general exams, but are invariably too long and too pedantic. Professor Jones' exams were more highly held than others, however. Another fault of English exams is that few section men mark with the same viewpoint...
...State Department, unprecedented developments in Europe last week presented two related but separate problems. One was exactly how to handle the factual changes caused by Reichs-führer Hitler's annexation of Austria. The other was how to let the world know exactly how the U. S. felt about it. Last week, Tennessee's drawling, mild-mannered Cordell Hull solved both with characteristic common sense...