Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paid tribute to "his youth, his sharp and trained intelligence, and his undoubted popular magnetism." Even the New York Post's sour-tempered Murray Kempton broke down and confessed that the young man from Boston was "an engaging fellow"-thereby leaving Westbrook Pegler almost alone to carry the dissent: "A hard, selfish politician with no warm emotional ties...
...dissent, Justice Douglas paid his respects to the importance of voting rights but warned that "it will not do to sacrifice other civil rights in order to protect them." If charges brought against registrars are true, wrote Douglas, the registrars are criminally responsible under federal law, and, in fact, on trial. Never before, said Douglas, "has a federal executive agency attempted, over the objections of the accused, to force him through a hearing to determine whether he has violated a federal law." The concept of due process approved by the majority, said he, was "whimsical" and "chameleon-like...
Audiences shout with laughter at every sinister turn in the plot, causing at least one minority group to scowl in dissent: children at the matinees take the story dead seriously...
...White House hostility to Connole, a political independent, was said to be partly founded on anti-Administration cracks he had made at Washington cocktail parties. He was also disliked by his fellow FPC commissioners. The gas companies, for whom he had urged stricter regulation (in one important case his dissent was implicitly endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court), were certainly not sorry...
...maverick on the Federal Power Commission is William R. Connole, 37, a Connecticut political independent. For the past five years Connole has built a reputation as a dissenter from his colleagues, a defender of the consumer by urging stricter regulation of natural gas prices. He was the lone dissenter in the precedent-setting C.A.T.C. case (TIME, July 8,1957), when the FPC allowed new field gas sales worth $1 billion without final approval of the rates. Connole's dissent was implicitly endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court when it criticized the FPC decision, upholding the contention of New York...