Word: dissenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professors but should deliberately seek representation for unorthodox, minority views. "Harvard would not be true to its ideals or to its role if its appointment policy should exclude from its ranks every advocate of social change," the Committee says. Even stronger is this remark: "It is not enough that dissent from prevailing views should not count against a proposed appointee; it should count in his favor, if the dissent has intellectual weight, and is inadequately represented in the "Faculty...
...until he was an old man did Louis Brandeis see an era where many men in power shared his penetrations and fears. A "liberal" Justice before the New Deal crystallized division of social & political thought on the Supreme Court, in his old age Brandeis moved from dissent to assent. But he was no "New Deal Justice." The core of his social philosophy was a distrust of all arrangements, public or private, that too heavily taxed human fallibility. His grave objection to NRA was vigorously made known to all his colleagues. He resented humanly the attack on age which Franklin Roosevelt...
...unions. In finding that Consolidated should deal with both A. F. of L. and C. I. O. for their respective members, the Court presumably left intact the principle that NLRB may void contracts when collusion is sufficiently proved. But Justices Reed and Black took pains to dissent, say the Board did retain this power-thus implying that the majority might think...
...Negro delegates took their herding quietly. But before the Conference dispersed, after establishing itself as a permanent, continuing body, a signal resolution was passed without dissent: no future meetings for Human Welfare shall be held in any city having a Jim Crow...
...never paid a common stock dividend, has never paid its $4 preferred in full. Last year the road piled up a $902,363 deficit. Had it been operating under the ICC-approved reorganization, it would have earned only 1.4% on its capitalization. This fact presumably prompted Commissioner Mahaffie to dissent again, ask for a more thorough revamping. Said he: "The majority approve a plan that cuts obligatory interest severely and to a basis that in the past would . . . have been adequately covered. But the plan now approved is for the future. ... A new structure should protect creditor claims to earnings...