Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward VIII, "signed by his own hand," the Prime Minister was not exactly under fire. The House was offered a choice of voting either for or against His Majesty's "irrevocable decision." It was ratified by a vote of 403-to-5 in the Commons and passed without dissent in the Lords. Dominion Parliaments hastened to concur by rubber-stamp landslides, all excepting the Irish Free State (see p. 18). Finally Parliament so legislated that Prince Edward and his heirs shall be free to marry whom they please without having first to obtain the King's consent...
Also under the Committee's grant, Wolfgang H. Krans, instructor is Government, will write a report on "Judicial Review, Judicial Dissent, and the Modern Republic...
Chief Justice Hughes in his restrained dissent merely grabbed at straws in attempting to prove the New York law different from the District of Columbia statute which was invalidated in the famous Adkins decision in 1923. If there are any differences, they are of a highly technical nature and of small importance. All that concerned the majority of the court was that such laws interfere with the so-called "liberty of contract" which is protected by the "due process" of the fifth and fourteenth amendments. Liberty is taking on strange disguises indeed, when a state which tries to prevent...
Without debate, without dissent the Senate last week confirmed six appointments to the new Federal Reserve Board submitted by President Roosevelt. The seventh appointee is yet to be chosen. Three days later the old Board, set up by Woodrow Wilson 22 years ago, passed out of legal existence. Though their terms had not expired, four members of the old Board were retired without pensions. At 67 John Jacob Thomas, a Roosevelt appointee, returns to his farm and his law practice in Nebraska. George Roosa James, 69, wise and crotchety, goes back to Memphis to train his son in the wholesale...
...meet with you to discuss your problems and his, that is none of our affair'? "Members of the Congress, let these challenges be met! If this is what these gentlemen want, let them say so to the Congress of the United States! Let them no longer hide their dissent in a cowardly cloak of generality! Yes, let them define the issues! We have been specific in our affirmative action. Let them be specific in their negative attack!" Shackles for Liberty. "Our resplendent economic autocracy does not want to return to that individualism of which they prate, even though...