Word: dissentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Resolved, without dissent, to set up a chapel in the Capitol. Explained Oklahoma's Democrat Mike Monroney, the project's sponsor, "We've got Turkish baths, private dining rooms and automatic-typewriting rooms, but no place to pray...
...board's hearing last week, some young voices were raised in dissent. Said one Baptist student: "Perhaps we students need to investigate some of our leaders for pettiness and prejudice." But most of the 500 Southern Baptists present thought that the board was right, and that the young ministers were too "interdenominational" for comfort. "I am told," said one minister angrily, "that a Jewish rabbi has been invited to speak at a Sunday night [student] forum." Added another: "A man who doesn't believe in the virgin birth is no more a Baptist than the Pope of Rome...
Local 301's turnabout was the result of increasing pressure on it. Tagged publicly with the Communist label, U.E. recently has lost out in almost every representation election held in new General Electric plants. Dissent and dissatisfaction with its party-line policies have spread among its own rank & file. Said one shop steward: "For years my friends have thought I was a Communist because 1 read the U.E. News." When six members of Local 301 refused to talk about their Red connections before the McCarthy committee last month, other members seized the moment to circulate petitions barring any such...
...this week's floor action, Langer apparently voted to confirm Warren. There was no audible dissent−and Bill Langer is nothing if not audible...
...attack. It is simply another way of saying that a man's mind cannot exist half slave and half free, that if a scholar is to operate effectively on the frontiers of his field, he must also be accorded the rights of any other citizen to differ and dissent outside that field. Harvard has refused to fire four teachers who invoked the Fifth Amendment because they are not now members of the party, have never been found guilty of espionage, and have never tried to indoctrinate their classes...