Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the Executive Mansion at Albany he vaulted to the U. S. Supreme Court. Between October 1910 and June 1916 he wrote 150 majority opinions. In only nine instances was there dissent in the Court, in only three cases did more than one of his associates dissent. On 30 occasions he was allied with the minority opinion; twice he dissented alone...
...challenge the wisdom of his international money-juggling. If wise Gov. Strong, fresh from a meeting of master minds, thought Chicago should reduce its rediscount rate from 4 to 3½% to aid his European comrades in finance, only bad manners or sheer contrariness could explain Chicago's dissent. Gov. Strong was cast for the hero's role in the drama of U. S. money. Obviously, all that remained for Chicago was to be the juvenile or the villain...
Last week, however, a dissenting voice, loud, strong, was raised. It belonged to burly Thomas Williams Slocum, 61, textile potentate, sportsman, clubman, orator, onetime (1924-27) president of the Harvard Club of Manhattan. He was a big man in his class at Harvard (1890), but not a P. B. K. man. His dissent, entitled "Fools Trespass When Angels Keep Off the Grass," appearing in the Harvard Advocate, did not bother with statistics. He did not try to prove ; he knew. ' He simply wielded his own bludgeon: "The Phi Beta Kappa men have apparently disappeared, and those who gave little...
...still raging or the objections raised a few years ago when the new Business Schoool group was undertaken. Ordinarily, perhaps, the raising of a new building is purely a practical matter: a need exists for a building, say a new lecture hall, and the building is put up without dissent. It is when the practical clashes with an ideal, or with that immaterial substance known as sentiment that there arises disagreement, and sometimes bitter controversy...
...Dissent. Before these final reports were ready, the Most Rev. Germanos Troianos, Metropolitan of Sardis, arose to announce, gravely, politely, that he and his fellow representatives of Eastern Orthodoxy would be unable to accept the plan for unity. It was based on compromises, he said. It arrived only at "an external agreement, in letter alone...