Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agree with this contention," wrote Justice Hugo Black in last week's majority opinion. Though Virginia is undoubtedly empowered to regulate law practice, said Black, it cannot forbid trainmen "to gather together" and seek "the wisest counsel" in pursuit of their legal rights. In sharp dissent, Justice Tom Clark argued that the decision "overthrows state regulation of the legal profession and relegates the practice of law to the level of a commercial enterprise." Even so, Railroad Trainmen v. Virginia means that lay organizations across the U.S. may now attempt all sorts of experimental group plans to put more lawyers...
...have succumbed to the urging of many friends," he said, "but the truth is that this candidacy is a genuine draft-a draft inspired by the candidate himself." Answering serious questions, he insisted: "I've had a very warm relationship with President Johnson. There was absolutely no dissent with anything at the White House." Where would he get campaign money? "I'm very confident about my ability to get funds...
Colonial administrators found it easier to make major decisions without consulting the populace. In the same way, one-party leaders like Nyerere and Nkrumah insist that they cannot afford the luxury of dissent and opposition. Many argue, by way of rationalization, that the one-party state is a modern adaptation of traditional tribal society, in which the individual was free to ex press his viewpoint under the baobab tree, but had to accept the tribe's (or chief's) decision once rendered. And indeed a certain amount of discussion filters up from the ranks...
...good. But then-only 44 days after independence-Nyerere's well-tuned ear caught rumblings of dissent within TANU. With uhuru an accomplished fact, party discipline was crumbling. Says former Governor General Sir Richard Turnbull: "TANU was like a 100-horsepower engine which had been building up its power before independence, then had the load lifted." Nyerere feared that TANU might turn against him. So he resigned...
...doctors' dissent was described by one observer as "a shot fired when the battle is over." Yet it did stir some reluctant rethinking. Stockholm's prestigious daily, Expressen, which bitterly attacked the petition, concluded that "the uneasiness about these problems must not be dismissed as a bagatelle. It is now time for emotional disarmament and calm self-analysis...