Word: monitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME published two articles purporting to show that on occasion The Christian Science Monitor plays favorites in its presentation of the news. One of these articles dealt with what appeared to be an attempt by The Monitor to minimize the extent of British displeasure over the recent U. S. Supreme Court ruling on liquor on the high seas...
...Charles E. Heitman of the Christian Science Committee on Publication wrote a courteous letter to the editors of TIME, referring to quotations from London papers published in these columns by way of contrast with The Monitor's story...
Said Mr. Heitman: "The quotations published by you from the British press were first utterances of these papers on this particular prohibition ruling of the Supreme Court, whereas The Monitor's story was of a later date...
...Albion, Michigan, is a private school for "bad" boys called The Starr Commonwealth for Boys. Mr. Starr, founder of the Commonwealth, rebuilds boys by keeping them occupied and giving them good influences. To do this, according to The Christian Science Monitor, he selects and reads " every book and magazine that comes to the school...
What is more, he addressed a gathering of Rotarians and told them: " I was particularly careful about choosing the newspaper the boys would read . . . The Christian Science Monitor was selected because I believe it to be the cleanest paper in the country. It prints no accounts of crime or scandal; it is reliable; it Carries international news and articles of educational worth . . . The Christian Science Monitor is the only newspaper I allow the boys to read...