Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took just 30 seconds for the Supreme Soviet, Russia's moot parliament, to dispose of the absent Deputy for the Moscow district of Kalinin. In two swift, silent shows of 1,400 hands, without a single dissent or abstention, the assemblage in the Kremlin ratified Nikita Khrushchev's dismissal by the party Presidium last October as First Party Secretary and Premier. But except for a change in style, the Khrushchev spirit was very much present...
Chief Judge Charles Desmond winced at the decision. Said he in sharp dissent: The majority "is holding that there is no public policy against the use of a New York court as a collection agency by a gambling-house proprietor who is guilty of the social wrong of letting his customers gamble on a charge-account basis...
Certainly, Silver's book is valuable for its description of the forces which stifle dissent in Mississippi. Its fault is what it leaves out. Mississippi: The Closed Society is all detail and no substance: Silver introduces his thesis, presents an overwhelming mass of examples to back it up, but never explains...
...goodness of Government power. Backing up F.D.R. in World War II, he wrote the Court's 1944 opinion upholding the wholesale relocation of West Coast Japanese-Americans (actively supported in 1942 by California's then attorney general, Earl Warren) over Justice Frank Murphy's eloquent dissent that called the ruling "the ugly abyss of racism." By 1952, Black had swung so far around to a concept of limited Government that he wrote
Painful Precedents. Black sharply dissented, but the vaguely worded rule remained on the books to cause case-by-case confusion for the next two decades. In 1947, the Court took a similar tack in Adamson v. California, saying that the Fifth Amendment did not forbid states to pressure a defendant to testify against himself. Calling this "an incongruous excrescence on our Constitution," Black offered an elaborately researched dissent arguing that the 14th Amendment's framers themselves intended the Bill of Rights as a shield against the states. He won over three other Justices (Douglas, Murphy, Rutledge). A fifth vote...