Word: dissentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Justice Douglas, in dissent, said: "The Feinberg Law proceeds on a principle repugnant to our society--guilt by association. A teacher is disqualified because of her membership in an organization found to be 'subversive.' The very threat of such procedure is certain to raise havoc with academic freedom. Youthful indiscretions, mistaken causes, misguided enthusiasm--all long forgotten--become ghosts of a harrowing present...
VIRGINIA-23. Taft claims the state in the face of hopeful but faint dissent from Ikemen. Strong man in Virginia's Republican Party is National Committeeman Curtis M. Dozier of Richmond. Taft will make a major speech at Richmond in mid-January in an attempt to clinch Dozier...
...people see that McCarthyism can snowball until Joe becomes Adolf and our right to dissent is lost...
...McCarthy's success in smearing Tydings and others generates fear of the consequences of dissent. This fear is exaggerated by the "liberals" who welcome McCarthyism as an issue; but the fear exists-and it is poison in a democracy...
Many loyal Americans like himself Lamont declared, "are now under a kind of house arrest, for no ascertainable crime and with no satisfactory redress . . . because they have asserted their moral and constitutional right of dissent...