Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government, the Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda. Under the direction of the astute Dr. Goebbels it has become the most successful molder of the public mind ever seen. Every possible outlet of opinion, journalistic, dramatic, musical, and artistic is subjected to the closest supervision, and any note of dissent is rigidly suppressed...
...question of whether all business shall be regulated and supervised by Government Bureaus and Commissions is one that may involve differing viewpoints but there will be no dissent from the proposition that expert personnel shall be employed in the administration of these new laws. For this reason it is significant that in the proposed stock exchange control bill, the proponents of the act are asking that the measure be exempt from the usual civil service requirements and that salaries up to $15,000 be paid. The next thing of course is to find some effective way to keep the Senators...
...must dissent most emphatically from the view taken by a correspondent whose letter you publish in your issue of Feb. 5, that artists who refuse to sing without the stipulated compensation are "in the banking business" or do anything they need apologize...
...Judiciary Committee's big chamber lacked room for the Birth Controllers. So all paraded to the huge marble caucus room in the House Office Building. News photographers prepared to take pictures. Comely Mrs. Hepburn, like her actress daughter, objected. Her dissent provoked a vote by the Committee: for photographs, eight; against, three. Mrs. Hepburn disappeared during the picture taking...
...interesting to note in this connection how this show of popular sentiment has quelled the roar of Congressional dissent which greeted the budget message when it first appeared. With the political foresight of glowworms, the Republicans were prepared to leap gleefully on Mr. Roosevelt and see him overwhelmed by public disapproval of his monstrous expenditures, whil they posed grandiloquently as the saviors of their country or at least of their country's credit. Mr. Snell announced that he was so shocked that he did not expect to recover for "several days." The several days have passed and Mr. Snell...