Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With longer and better discussions of gold-standard economics separating his flambuoyant portraits of Wall Street personalities, Father Coughlin has again rolled a sonorous hour's speech along the national networks. Again the bankers, professors, senators, braintrusters, labor leaders, and even cardinals can read it with detached approval or dissent, not a little bored by the purely popular reactions to the scientific, unemotional experiments of the administration...
...many in the House were less willing to put President Roosevelt above the lawmaking power of Congress. Gibed Republican Leader Snell: "We'd better abolish Congress and go home." So loud grew the cries of dissent that Speaker Garner, a good retreater, decided to put his dictatorship plan over until the next session...
...Ruin! 'Wreckage!" "I totally dissent from the quantitative theory of money. I do not think depreciation of the dollar would permanently raise commodity prices. On the contrary it would so deprave our currency that it would bring ruin, particularly to the wage earners of the country and those on fixed salaries...
...Court's majority opinion, "cannot guide themselves through the intricacies of legal procedure and protect their rights." The opinion went further to brand the trial, with its militia guardsmen, court-appointed defense and surcharged atmosphere, as "a gesture." Kentucky-born Justice McReynolds was joined by Justice Butler in dissent...
...ahead with the promulgation of socialist legislation, irrespective of party consequences." Thus was the resolution adopted by the annual conference of the British Labor Party in Leicester. Mr. Arthur Henderson's warning that the resolution would seriously damage the Party's cause was drowned out in an uproar of dissent...