Word: toomey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month America, influential Jesuit weekly, announced a Bias Contest, with cash prizes for readers who found the worst examples of anti-Catholic bias in a month's reading of the U. S. press (TIME, March 7). Wrote Rev. John A. Toomey, S.J., in announcing the contest: "It is anti-Catholic bias if it misleads readers on any Catholic question." Last week, announcing the prizewinners, America attributed bias to the following publications, in the following order: 1) Bergen Evening Record (Hackensack, N. J.), 2) The Apprentice (New York University undergraduate magazine), 3) Ladies' Home Journal, 4) Fact Digest...
...Father Toomey, who did most of the work on the Bias Contest, is a zealous, grey-haired priest, born 48 years...
...World War, did some advertising work before beginning, in 1921, the long, hard studies of a Jesuit. Ordained in 1931, he was assigned to America's staff four years ago. Believing that much of the U. S. press is biased, or uninformed, on Catholic matters, Father Toomey has in recent months written four articles on "propaganda" in the press. Last month, before the Bias Contest ended, he helped set up a Catholic organization to deal with erring editors...
Other backfield aspirants were: Ralph Hornblower '41, Clifton Helman '41, Bill Tully '41, Al Jaretzki '41, George Smith '41, Bill Stedman '41, Charles Burnett '41, Herbert Wee '41, D. C. Hamilton '41, Joe Gardella '41, Bob Toomey '40, Bill Tyng '41, Louis Harder '41, Al Stohn '41, Joe Scherer '41, G. W. Bailey '40, Ben Smith '39, Pete Thompson '40, Pete Elser '41, Tom Gaffney '41, Bob James '41, and George Harder...
Last week America announced a "Bias Contest," with Father Toomey among others in charge, in which $50 in prizes will be awarded to readers culling and commenting upon the worst examples of anti-Catholic bias in the press during March. Father Toomey's observations on the scope of the contest: "Something may not seem to be anti-Catholic at all until one bestows thought upon it. For example, consider the Ladies' Home Joitrnal's birth control propaganda. . . . The bias may be achieved by playing up the anti-Catholic side, playing down the Catholic side ... or by means...