Word: dissentions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Labor Relations Board last week split on where the line should be drawn. Last summer, when NLRB first announced that it would narrow its jurisdiction to exclude small retailers, utility companies, etc., and concentrate on companies having an important impact on interstate commerce, there was no dissent. But when NLRB last week showed what it meant by turning down six of eight union requests for federal supervision of bargaining elections,* the decision divided the five-man board on straight party lines. Board Member Abe Murdock, former Democratic Senator, charged that the board was abdicating its responsibilities, and that...
...until 1949, in fact, that dissent arose. At first it was the lone voice of Professor Oakes Ames, once a director of the Arboretum, a voice somewhat obscured in the stately federal procedure of the Board of Overseers. He wrote Walte Edmonds, Committee on Biological sciences, expressing doubt over the Plan's legality. Soon the vistors to the Arboretum began to question it, too. The Overseers referred the question to the Edmonds Committee, which in turn requested the services of an independent lawyer. The Corporation retained Alfred P. Lowell, the first of the many legal guns that have reported...
...Harvard publications printed religious information where most college news distributors reported fraternity feuds, he made a revealing comment on present Administration policy. During the past year and a half its most significant projects have been concerned with the expansion of the University's religious facilities. In spite of occasional dissent, most students have at least tacitly approved the University's aim to bring religious facilities to a par with resources in other departments...
Jackson was to become one of the more conservative-minded members of the court. More often than not, he found himself in vigorous dissent from the liberal opinions of Justices Hugo Black, William Douglas and Frank Murphy...
HESTER LILLY AND TWELVE SHORT STORIES, by Elizabeth Taylor (210 pp.; Viking; $3). In this collection-a novelette and a dozen short stories-British Novelist Elizabeth Taylor (A Wreath of Roses, The Sleeping Beauty) takes stock characters, and with hairline precision asserts a small but significant dissent from the stock notions of them. She disconcerts the common sentimental concept of blindness with the story of a rough, tough old horse dealer gone blind, who finds himself isolated and bewildered in a "home," where the matron refuses to read him the racing news. In the predictable tensions of the novelette...