Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were the shouts of resentment and dissent. There were other voices in a different key. Salaried C. I. O. officials, a few disruptive leftists like the Transport Workers' Mike Quill in Manhattan, Joe Curran of the National Maritime Union, pledged continued loyalty to John Lewis. Packinghouse workers in Illinois, who had stood in sullen silence weeks ago while Villkie pleaded with them, heard Lewis, voted to go with him. Their action might upset the Chicago Democratic plurality, put Illinois safely in the Willkie camp. Many in the rank & file of the mineworkers in Illinois and Pennsylvania loyally...
...quote from President Butler's own report for 1926-27, "The scholar who in sincerity and knowledge criticizes or dissents from some well-established institution, idea or practice . . . is as much entitled to that dissent as his fellow who defends what this scholar condemns. This is one of the hardest lessons for public opinion in a democracy to learn. The persecuting instinct is so deep and so widespread and the passion for uniformity and conformity is so strong that many a missile will continue to be leveled at the devoted head of any scholar who dissents from a prevailing...
...down scattered systems into their regional components under the "death sentence" (Section 11). Last week SEC settled a case which brought its Section 10 principles into collision with its Section 11 goal. Main casualty: New Deal Commissioner Edward Clayton Eicher, who was jolted into delivering his first one-man dissent...
This pragmatic decision drew indignant prose from New Dealer Eicher. His dissent: "No ingenuity can square it with the standards of the Act. . . . Corporate management that, without contract compulsion, voluntarily doffs its Mother Hubbard of untrammeled business action [meaning its preferred stock] and dons a strait jacket of shortly-maturing secured debt deserves and should expect searching examination into the justification for its policy." Eicher's dissent overlooked the fact that Atlas sits on both sides of the table in Ogden Corp.; that, from a practical standpoint, the deal is largely bookkeeping. But he was cleaving to an abstract...
...Frank and Mumford could not have resigned because of our "do-nothing" policy, because they demanded no action that The New Republic was not also demanding. They avoided recommending, for instance, that the U. S. declare war on Germany. Their 13,000 words of dissent were on general philosophical and intellectual grounds, carefully avoiding debate on concrete policy...