Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Week in the Supreme Court the 14th Amendment wrecked another State experiment in economics?and brought forth what may become a historic dissent. In an attempt to control competition, the Oklahoma Legislature provided that the manufacture of ice was a public utility and that ice producers must obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity from the State Corporation Commission. New State Ice Co. of Oklahoma City complied with this statute. When one Ernest A. Liebeman started to put up an ice plant without a certificate, New State Ice Co. went into Federal Court for relief. On appeal, six justices...
...caustic Senator Reed who added that "a rowboat appeared to be in charge of the fleet." When the London Treaty limiting auxiliary naval craft arrived in the Senate, he mischievously used his committee, which had nothing to do with the treaty, to bring out the Navy's dissent with the Hoover policy. He later voted against the treaty's ratification as a bad bargain for U. S. defense...
...prospect of this investigation, together with the wave of dissent against any debt ''adjustments," thoroughly alarmed President Hoover, who saw he had another losing Congressional fight on his hands. To his defense Secretary of the Treasury Mellon rallied with a ringing public statement in which he harped on "realities." He pointed out that Britain funded her War Debt for about 80% in gold dollars. With sterling at par her debt payment this year would be ?32,800,000 but now it would take ?48,100,000 for her to meet her obligations...
...that the first speaker on the Democratic side commits his party to the principle that it's the duty of government to go into the Treasury and dole out money to those in need [applause]. Is there a man on the Democratic side who now wishes to rise and dissent from committing his party to the dole policy [nobody rises]. Very well, then, the issue is clean cut. The Demo-cratic party in the House would commit the Government to the dole...
Republican Beedy: Only one man rises in dissent. [Raucous Republican laughter and applause...