Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Majority Rule. The AEC's dissent punctuated one of the strangest chapters in modern U.S. diplomacy, a chapter that brought important modifications of longstanding U.S. nuclear policy with hardly a word of public debate. It began in 1957-58, when the Russians whipped up a new storm of propaganda against nuclear tests as a hazard to health and wholesome genetics. The Communists got special plaudits from neutralists in Asia and Africa, from U.S. pacifists and idealists, when the U.S.S.R. announced in March 1958 that it was suspending tests. At one point, Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge warned...
...minority report stated, "In light of the petition signed by the majority of the class, we find that we can not endorse the resolution backed by the other members of the Permanent Class Committee." Robert R. Foster (Marshal), Frederick H. Joseph (Dudley), and Nicholas C. Taylor (Eliot) signed the dissent. No representative has as yet been elected from Lowell House...
...Suzanne H. Rudolph, instructor in Government as of January 1, has been appointed a non-resident tutor at Quincy. Her husband, Lloyd Rudolph, also to become an instructor in Government this January, is a non-resident tutor at Dunster House. Bullitt said he realizes that there may be some dissent about having a woman as a House tutor but, "I am delighted to find someone of Mrs. Rudolph's intellectual stature and I see no reason for discrimination here...
...courtyard for a pre-game pep rally and set up a din that would not be denied. General Sullivan explained patiently that the trip would involve a 20-hour bus ride each way, that it would cost every cadet $25. Each objection was met with a roar of dissent. General Sullivan gave in. The entire cadet wing boarded 22 buses, rode all night to Iowa City, changed into their blues en route and arrived just before game time...
...political fact that underlay the rumbling was that the Vice President, on the campaign front, was in vigorous dissent from the President's kind of above-the-battle political leadership. "There has developed in recent years," said Nixon in Salt Lake City, "the unsound idea that hard-hitting debate on the issues which confront the country is somehow wrong and detrimental to the best interests of the nation. We need more of this kind of debate in this country, both in and out of political campaigns, rather than less...