Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justice Jackson had a bigger and broader objection. In his angry dissent, the man who was chief U.S. counsel at the Nürnberg trials brought into focus the dilemma of democracy: how to keep its freedoms without delivering itself to its enemies. To Jackson it was clear that Chicago had a clear right to curb a Terminiello, and that the judge's definition was a practical recipe for a concrete situation...
Most of Manhattan's critics wrote sentimentally affectionate reviews. One dissent came from New York Times Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson, who found the new four-a-day show a pale shadow of the classic two-a-day that died at the Palace in 1932. It was true that to get a new start, the proud old Palace had humbled itself with low-budget acts and no headliners. In a famed Variety phrase, the new show's hoofers, illusionists and comics were "good for the smalltime." But Variety itself, pointing to the Palace's low admission scale...
This re-worked version passed the House on May 4 without a single dissent, but was defeated in the Senate 5 days later. One representative said that most of his colleagues opposed the bill, but that they were "afraid to voice opposition to it because they themselves might be open to accusations of sympathizing with Communism...
Washington debated: what to do? With almost monolithic stubbornness, Harry Truman still insisted that the thing to do was to boost taxes $4 billion. Apparently almost no one in Congress agreed with him. The most notable dissent last week came from a New Dealing liberal, Illinois' greying freshman Senator Paul Douglas, onetime professor of economics...
Sullivan, himself, never stumped hard for his bill, which he revised twice before it hit the House floor, where it was approved without vocal dissent. He said when he first filed the bill, "I don't expect it to pass, but it will serve as a warning to trustees that the legislature is prepared to deal with communist infiltration if the colleges don't themselves...