Word: dissentions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prodded by newsmen at a press conference, McElroy comments on Burke's dissent: "I am disappointed in him, regard it as regrettable. I think he's a fine officer. I am sorry he's mistaken in this respect." In testifying on the Administration's reorganization proposals, declares McElroy, military officers should bear in mind the President's publicly and emphatically expressed views...
...sharp dissent, written by Justice Tom Clark, concurred in by Justices Harold Burton, John Marshall Harlan, Charles E. Whittaker: 1) the Secretary of State is authorized by precedents reaching back to 1856 to preside over passports, period-and never more so than in times of national emergency, and that 2) President Truman's declaration of national emergency, proclaimed in 1950, is still in specific effect, thereby giving the Secretary of State wider discretion over passports...
...plan in a Page One editorial as an "eloquent . . . appeal for a return to reason and good will. Mr. Thomas recognizes that any settlement must be in accordance with the law-or, more precisely, within the broad tenets of an interpretation of the U.S. Constitution with which most Arkansans dissent. Yet he believes, as does this newspaper, that it is possible to meet the new legal conditions without any real dislocation of the social patterns under which the two races have always lived." If successful, said the Gazette, the Thomas plan could return Arkansas to paths of progress from which...
...dissent, Justice Frankfurter said that to uphold the expatriation act "is to respect the actions of the two branches of our Government directly responsive to the will of the people and empowered under the Constitution to determine the wisdom of legislation. The awesome power of this court to invalidate such legislation, because in practice it is bounded only by our own prudence in discerning the limits of the court's constitutional function, must be exercised with the utmost restraint." He took special exception to Earl Warren's citing of the 81 times the Supreme Court has declared acts...
...opened, Khrushchev and his policies were in jeopardy. His denunciation of Stalin and his proclaimed "separate roads to socialism" had resulted in rebellion in Hungary, defiance in Poland and denunciation by the world. The restless spirit of dissent seethed in Rumania, in East Germany, even in docile Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. In France and Italy, in every Western country, the Communist parties were in turmoil; everywhere veteran comrades were resigning in outrage over his brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolt. At the December 1956 Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee in Moscow, he was conspicuously not one of the speakers...