Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unexpectedly, the opposition gained fresh strength and pressed with renewed vigor for the White House to withdraw Knowles. House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, who had been quietly opposing the appointment, and Texas Republican Senator John Tower reminded Nixon of the A.M.A. campaign contributions. Other Republicans echoed Ford's opinion that "there must be somebody less controversial who is equally qualified." It was also pointed out that this was a bad time for the President to antagonize usual allies on Capitol Hill. In the Senate, a shift of a single vote could affect the outcome of the anti-ballistic-missile...
...opinion requested on the ordinance by the City Council, Cambridge City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin '53 stated, "It is my opinion that these and other problems which have arisen from excessive amplification of music at Cambridge common can best be regulated by an existing law...which imposes a jail term of not more than six months or a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or both for disturbing the peace...
...loud and raucous noise has long been considered conduct sufficient to constitute disturbing the peace. Proof of commission of the crime is sufficient if the acts are of such a nature as tend to annoy good citizens and do in fact annoy any one person present," Cronin's opinion stated...
commenting upon the opinion, Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci pointed out it meant that, next Sunday afternoon, a police officer could order the rock groups to lessen their noise, and arrest them if they failed to comply...
...active radical. But Professor Hughes and, for that matter, Betsy were only backwaters in the great stream of people supposedly politicized or radicalized by about five minutes of not unusually brutal police action in Harvard Yard. In both directions storm-troopers had worked the trick, the difference of opinion being as to who they were, students or police...