Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dissent. While the Senators and Congressmen were converging on Washington, Kennedy called in his Cabinet members. Some of the members still did not know what was going on. Silently they filed in. Silently they listened to the briefing, and silently they departed. Next came the congressional leaders. They studied the enlargements of the missile pictures and, in the words of one, their blood ran cold. The President then said simply: "We have decided to take action...
President Pusey told the Faculty that he personally thought the University should enter the program. Pusey closed the meeting with an informal, show-of-hands vote which revealed only negligible dissent...
...people want to do something I can't find anything in the Constitution expressly forbidding them to do, I say, whether I like it or not, 'Goddammit, let 'em do it.' ' In his own fashion, Frankfurter expressed that doctrine most eloquently in his dissenting opinion in 1943's West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, a milestone case in which the majority ruled that it is unconstitutional for a state to require schoolchildren to salute the nation's flag. Frankfurter argued that since the state law aimed toward "a legitimate legislative...
...quite approve of President Kennedy's brand of pragmatic liberalism, but they have little political choice but to back Jack-and, for that matter, Brother Bobby. When it comes to the Massachusetts Senate candidacy of young Brother Teddy, however, they seize with a vengeance upon the opportunity to dissent...
...things, and I was all for Roosevelt on things like that. But then this fellow Keynes got hold of him." Soon Byrd was leading the Senate opposition to the AAA, TVA, NRA-and when Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court, Byrd knew that his dissent was total...