Word: factualism
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Then lofting his economic arguments to an even less factual plane, Director Driscoll submitted to the committee a batch of photographs so that the French trade pact negotiators "may be able to visualize by actual observation the contented, happy look of our people...
Even less factual was the next two days' testimony from Mr. Mitchell. He declared that the Morro Castle before its fatal voyage had virtually no inspection from the Department of Commerce Bureau of Navigation & Steamboat Inspection. But he was unable to prove it. He "understood" that inspection officials made a practice of accepting "gratuities," narrowed the charge down to five inspectors in San Juan, Puerto Rico who had taken $560, failed to give their names, then admitted that the Department of Justice had investigated the case and dismissed it for lack of evidence. Most damaging charge Mr. Mitchell brought...
...frantic pleas of national defense urged by such jingoes as Senator Hiram Johnson, rest on no secure factual foundation. Most naval strategists recognize that the United States is practically impregnable. Successful Japanese action in the New World is predicated on a naval force of such colossal proportions that no national budget could ever bear...
...other side of that hill yonder"-even if its ending was too ruthlessly realistic for Hollywood's taste. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a story of prospecting for gold; it differs from other treasure-seeking tales chiefly in its air of authenticity, its soberly factual setting...
Millis' fever chart of the U. S. war psychosis is carefully factual, but to unregenerate patriots it may seem pro-German, or at least anti-Ally. Says he: "The merits of the European struggle are beyond [the book's] scope, and it is no part of my purpose either to defend the German cause or to attack that of the Allies. Since it deals with an episode profoundly influenced by a passionate acceptance of the Entente case, much of it is necessarily devoted to a criticism of that case. . . ." Author Millis determinedly refrains from diagnosing the disease...