Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussion here; besides it is not quite fair to reveal it. It contains the best and the worst of the play. Besides one or two seemingly curious contradictions of character, there is a showy device of dramatic technique in the inquisition scene which seems in poor taste,-- a dissent from good dramaturgy to bad artifice, so it seems to me. You may not agree...
...Republican caucus in the House voted viva voce, with little dissent, that the Ways and Means Committee should report out a tax reduction bill by Feb. 11, giving it precedence over a bonus bill. The caucus also voted down resolutions directing the Committee necessarily to report a bonus bill...
...down at lunch in the White House. Afterwards they spent the afternoon in private conclave. The President made a speech urging State coöperation in preventing immigrant and liquor smuggling and in enforcing prohibition. In a following discussion Governors Ritchie and Smith were the only ones who voiced dissent from the President's remarks. They objected to the Volstead Act as an invasion of state rights, as unenforcible and as contrary to public opinion. Before departing the Governors adopted a platform suggested by the President: 1) to coördinate Federal and local enforcement agencies; 2) to call on the press...
Justices Taft, Holmes and Sanford in honorable dissent from the minimum wage decision...
...foregone conclusion that the resolution will be defeated. Liberals and Conservatives have already intimated their dissent. Labor is in a peculiar position; to support the motion would be to lose many Liberals who look to a strong coalition, and to oppose it means the loss of a considerable part of the labor backing. But Ramsey Macdonald, head of the Labor Party, by his recent friendly overtures from King George seems to have edged towards the side of conservative reform. If England's industries will not be taken over by the government as a result of this proposal, at least...