Word: dissentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...redheaded young yahoo learning at Upton Sinclair's colony, Helicon Hall (Englewood, N. J.), the rudiments of a Socialism which he was later to abandon for a creed 100% egocentric, Upton Sinclair was already a celebrity by inversion, a rebel whose voice of loud and monotonous dissent had long been heard in the land...
Thus, with ten theoretical cruisers, President Coolidge sought to ease the hunger of the Navy and avoid an argument with Congress. There was dissent from this plan, even in Republican ranks. Representative Britten of Illinois, ranking Republican of the Naval Affairs Committee, who was not present at the making of the Coolidge-Butler compromise, said: "If the bill does not appropriate for those three cruisers already authorized, the authorization for the ten additional ones would appear to the world as a big bluff...
...XIII, remained under Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XL Retired last week by age (65*), placed in a steam-heated modern apartment across from the Vatican, she wept with loneliness, refused luxury in Milan, saying, "He may need my services again." Opportunism. The past week produced loud Episcopal dissent from the Roman Catholic satisfaction over its annulment of the marriage of the Duke of Marlborough to Consuelo Vanderbilt (TIME, Nov. 22). Up spoke first the brave Dr. Arthur Kinsolving (Episcopalian) of Baltimore, onetime rector in the New York Diocese where the Duke was wedded. "That girl was a happy...
...dissent is based on the belief that this kind of thing is not good for the boys and not good for the game Mighty few college boys can stand such exploitation and publicity without getting bad cases of what commonly is known as a "swelled head." The discase is not fatal, but while it lasts it does its victims a deal of harm. Football is a spectacular game, anyhow, and the more formidable players are made the subjects of an extraordinary amount of hero worship and general publicity. Greatly to their credit be it said that many of these young...
...resolution of the Senate to investigate the legality of the President's order for the appointment of local officers as Federal prohibition agents (TIME, May 31), had voted 4 to 1 that the order was legal. Senators Borah, Walsh, Cummins, Goff will report its legality. Senator King will dissent...