Word: dissentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Century's editors cheered an equally sturdy dissent by Felix Morley (in Barren's Weekly): "Our whole system of government is based on the assumption that there are certain absolute values, referred to in the Declaration of Independence as the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." Did the Chief Justice of the United States really mean what he said? Quaker Morley gave him the benefit of the doubt: presumably Vinson wrote "at the close of a difficult and trying session" and "did not edit his opinion with customary care...
...Student Council made a bad mistake Monday night when it approved without dissent the report of its committee on athletics. This repot was supposed to present solutions to problems that were making athletes "resentful" and "bitter" toward the University; while it contains many constructive suggestions, its basic approach is one that would only create more problems in the long...
Though the argument as to whether to abolish RFC entirely was still not over, the committee unanimously approved President Truman's nomination of W. Stuart Symington to be the single boss of a reorganized RFC and the full Senate confirmed him later without dissent. Able Man-About-Government Stu Symington solemnly assured the Senators that he was "beholden" to no five-percenters or influence-peddlers, an assertion that few Congressmen needed reassurance about...
...leader and Majlis (Parliament) speaker, called a meeting of the parliamentary oil commission, rammed through a report that recommended immediate expropriation of A.I.O.C. The Majlis unanimously made the report the law of the land, provided for a commission to work out details within three months. Majlis members knew that dissent would invite assassination by Nationalist fanatics...
...confidence in his military judgment. MacArthur was for bold and forceful retaliation. But the State Department laid down the line: U.S. policy would be to fight China only in Korea. MacArthur, unable to accept the logic of fighting a war he could not win, launched a fresh barrage of dissent. He loosed a flood of announcements, interviews, and answers to magazine queries, complaining of the enemy's "privileged sanctuary," calling such limitations "an enormous handicap without precedent in military history," declaring that "never before has the patience of man been more sorely tried...