Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personally, while I envy men who have the opportunity to write editorials, either under dateline or in their home paper, I have never felt that I had the right to do so. I consider my function as a press correspondent to be neutral and detached and simply to report developments as they arise, irrespective of the effect of the writings on the fortunes of the party of individual...
David Lawrence, onetime Associated Press shadow of Woodrow Wilson, has softened his sting and dampened his flair, partly because conservatism becomes the publisher of the neutral United States Daily, partly because he talks on the radio...
...became known that the Rev. John Roach Straton, blatant Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, was to engage in a debate with Alfred E. Smith (see p. 10), many an honest church man was puzzled and annoyed. The proposed controversy was one in which they might not remain neutral. Their sympathies were not with the presidential candidate. Hence they were forced to take the side of the fundamentalist clergyman. But before they did so, even as he had cast reflections upon Governor Smith's record, they found it advisable to reflect upon Dr. Straton...
...Indiana to speak for Candidate Hoover. When Candidate Watson heard this he was furious. He lumbered over to the Treasury Department to see Secretary Mellon. It was reported that during the interview he asked Mr. Mellon if this was what Mr. Mellon called "straight shooting." Mr. Mellon, powerfully, persistently neutral, did not agree with Mr. Watson's definition of a "straight shooter." Mr. Watson left the Treasury promising to war on the Administration from then until June if Mr. Mills was allowed to help Hooverize Indiana. It was not reported that Mr. Mills would change his plan...
...three-hour examination on English literature, prepared by a committee consisting of Professor C. G. Osgood of Princeton, two Harvard professors, and two Yale professors, will be taken simultaneously at Cambridge and New Haven by the contestants. The neutral judges, Professor Osgood, Professor A. K. Potter of Brown and Professor J. O. Adams of Cornell, will decide on the award of the prize. The victorious team will win for its college library $5000 worth of books, besides which individual prizes will be given to the members of the team...