Word: dissenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That children should be sent to school -nursery school or kindergarten-as early as the fourth or fifth year, is a theory held by many U. S. educators. Dissent came last week from Dr. David Snedden, professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University. The ninth or tenth year, said he, is soon enough, save for children from economically and socially unsuitable homes. For children on farms, in villages and suburbs, in all but the largest cities, there is environment favorable to natural, wholesome growth. Let such children play until they are 10; intellectual and social development can come later...
...called Eastman "best known" and "most listened to"? TIME might also have added that the liberalness of Commissioner Eastman has caused newspaper editorial writers to place him on the same shelf with the so-called liberal minority on the Supreme Court Bench whose every utterance or dissent is overpublicized as a liberal voice whether the matter at hand be of real importance...
Governor Davis had hardly left the chamber when a great babble of dissent erupted. Politicos were openly resentful, began to threaten dreaded noncooperation with the Governor General which would tie the Islands' legislative affairs into hard knots. Mr. Davis had recommended a long-term public works program ("Pork is an unsound foundation for roads"), repeal of the anti-trust laws, leasing of public lands for cultivation, private ownership of communications. But such hostility and displeasure were created by his message that it seemed unlikely that any of his recommendations would be executed by the Legislature. U. S. citizens...
...Without dissent the entire Supreme Court upheld the right of Ohio to tax a public service corporation on natural gas it brought in from two adjoining States, regardless of the constitutional prohibition against a tax on interstate commerce...
...Republicans or Monarchists you can justly dissent over what form of government is best for Spain, or concerning purely human interests. However, when the rights of religion are imperiled it is absolutely essential for Catholics to unite to secure the election of candidates to the Assembly who will guarantee to defend the rights of the Church and the social order. . . . Let us remind you that King Alfonso and his family steadfastly kept the Catholic faith...