Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think so. just start something. You'll ride the cushions home and there'll be food for you. That's more than Hoover did for you. I'm giving you guys a break. What do you say? [A minor murmur of dissent.] Then you bums can walk and I'll see you get a damned good start. I won't call in any troopers to massacre you. I'll put you to hell out myself. . . . I'll knock the teeth out of anybody who hangs around here...
...Eastman Dissent. Such a lax attitude by a majority of the I. C. C. produced a stinging dissent from the merger plan by Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman. As the "radical" member of the Commission, Mr. Eastman delivered a long economic treatise in which he declared...
...tradition. Professor Frankfurter is an idealist and an enthusiast, who will not confine himself to more defense of the status quo; that he is endowed with the judicial temperament is to be doubted. He will, however, collaborate with six other justices, with whose opinions, doubtless, he will frequently express dissent. In this over-worked court, criticized as too narrowly legalistic, his will be a leavening influence; the combination should result to the benefit of Massachusetts...
...dissent from the view that there is any need of artificial inflation of the credits or currency of the country," declared Senator Glass when his bill was reported out by committee, "but if there, is to be any more inflation it should be brought about by a simple method which everybody may understand and not by the roundabout process which is being vainly tried by the Federal Reserve authorities. I think there should be 'diffusive' inflation rather than so-called 'controlled' inflation. ... I distinctly disavow the belief that any of these legislative devices is necessary...
...ubiquitous depression may be teaching the young men a new wisdom, or it may be simply that styles are changing, but the two critical notes of the issue contain a pronounced dissent from the worship of yesterday's literary deities. The author of the current editorial has made the immense discov- ery that "violence can be a vogue and, like all vogues, presently become outworn." Therefore, O'Neill, Jeffers, and Faulkner are each awarded a great big question mark. Regardless of what posterity will ultimately decide to be the permanent value of these authors, I cannot help feeling that such...