Word: dissentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commager, in a lecture at the spring meeting of the Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa chapter, spoke on the topic, "The Importance of Dissent." He explained that the practical consequence of censoring free thought endanger any country...
Having failed to obtain a license from the Jockey Club of New York, Don Meade last week appealed to the Florida commission for reinstatement. The commission voted 3-1 (over the strong dissent of its chairman) to give him a one-year probationary license. Now 37, but still capable of making a riding weight of 110 Ibs., Meade thought he had "several good years ahead-now that I've been given another chance...
...been Governor Thurmond," said the deep voice, "I would never have appointed the Nigger physician of Charleston, Dr. T. C. McFall, to displace your beloved white physician [on the Medical Advisory Board]." At that point, sounds of dissent rose from 400 Negroes in the bleachers. Johnston bellowed: "Make those Niggers keep quiet...
More effective dissent to the Supreme Court's action was written by Irving Dilliard, 45, longtime student of the Supreme Court's procedures and editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial page (TIME, July 4). In a series of 15 doggedly detailed editorials, he denounced the "star chamber proceedings" in the case of Knauff v. the U.S. as a denial of her rights and a threat to the civil liberties of U.S. citizens as well. The P-D backed up his blasts with Fitzpatrick cartoons, news stories and full-page ads in the Washington Post and Star...
...chairman of the board which ousted her, Republican Lawyer Seth Whitley Richardson, admitted that he had not "the slightest knowledge" of who Miss Bailey's accusers were or how trustworthy their information. The board had only seen the FBI's anonymous reports gleaned from unsworn informants.In his dissent to the court's decision, Justice Henry W. Edgerton objected: "Without trial by jury, without evidence and without even being allowed to confront her accusers or to know their identity, a citizen of the United States has been ..." A found disloyal Government to the worker's career...