Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Knerr places partial blame on the "old guard in the Army," but the full force of his attack falls on the Navy command: "The average 60-year-old admiral contemplates the tortures of hell a lot more cheerfully than he contemplates being commanded by an Army general...
Gerald L. K. Smith, the rabble-rousing, anti-Administration, anti-British (but not notably anti-Nazi) preacher of isolationism, last week nominated his own Hall of Fame-"a partial list of fearless Ameri-cans": 1) Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. 2) Father Charles E. Coughlin, of Royal Oak, Mich. 3) Gerald B. Winrod, anti-Semite, anti-Catholic editor of The Defender, Wichita, Kans. 4) Eleanor Patterson, publisher, Washington Times-Herald. 5) Elizabeth Billing, Chicago Red-baiter. 6) Joseph M. Patterson, publisher, the New York Daily News. 7) Congressman Martin Dies of Texas. 8) William Randolph Hearst...
...Many? Hooper, Inc. also had a partial answer to the most tantalizing question of all: How many people hear a broadcast? Since no one knows the exact number of radio sets in the U.S. there can be no really accurate estimate of the total number of listeners. The results of the Hooper surveys represent a percentage of the total homes in the listening area...
Last week in Manhattan, quiet, greying, sharp-faced Dr. Walter William Marseille, former Berlin psychologist, described graphology's partial emergence from the doghouse to do a routine job of work: rating customer reliability for Spiegel's, Chicago mail-order house, which sells clothing, furniture and household goods to more than two million installment accounts...
...would support such a Repertory organization, were it formed. The great difficulty that impedes such a plan is that the Shubert Brothers of Broadway control practically every weather-proof theatre east of the Mississippi, and would set the rent at a sky-high figure if they were not partial to the idea, which they haven't been in the past. There are some groups already participating in the permanent Repertory idea: Jasper Decter's Hedgerow Theatre outside of Philadelphia; the Michael Chekhov Players, established in Ridgefield, Conn,. but almost constantly on tour; the Seattle Repertory Playhouse; the Cleveland Play House...