Word: dissenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...express in your columns an opinion with respect to the "strong dissent" voiced by the Cambridge Union of University Teachers, A. F. of T., Local No. 431, to the passage in President Conant's Annual Report in which Mr.Conant says that it seems to him ". . . highly probable that a diminution in the total number of students in the universities of this country is desirable...
Ever since Conant's report was first made public, wide comment has resulted on the policy to limit the number of students. This criticism reached its height last Tuesday when the Cambridge Union of University Teachers voted to send the President a statement expressing "strong dissent" with his annual report...
Terming President Conant's idea of limiting the number of college graduates "a ploughing under the human brains," the Cambridge Union of University Teachers yesterday voted to send the President a statement expressing "strong dissent" with his annual report...
...measure make it clear that the tax and credit device was intended to enable Federal officers virtually to control the exertion of powers of the States in a field in which they alone have jurisdiction and from which the United States is by the Constitution excluded." A third dissent was rendered by Justice McReynolds on the ground that the law, by its tax feature, virtually coerced the States into passing unemployment insurance laws...
...favor of Stockholder George P. Davis who sued Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston to restrain it from paying old age pension taxes on its payrolls. This time Justice Cardozo carried seven members of the court with him in approving the law, leaving Justices Butler and McReynolds to dissent. Finally Justice Stone read a decision upholding (5 to 4) Alabama's unemployment insurance law passed to conform to the Federal law. The Court having thus made a clean sweep of legal attacks on Social Security, Justice Cardozo went home to celebrate the day, his 67th birthday...