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Book American Women  1939 40

Download or read book American Women 1939 40 written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mexico and the United States in the Oil Controversy  1917   1942

Download or read book Mexico and the United States in the Oil Controversy 1917 1942 written by Lorenzo Meyer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From reviews of the Spanish edition: “Meyer’s perceptive commentary on Mexican power politics presents new insights into the petroleum lobbies in Mexico City and Washington. With unbiased empathy he shows the validity of Mexico’s complaints about foreigners’ deriving an overabundance of profit from a nonrenewable natural resource. He understands United States history and never abuses his license to criticize.” —Hispanic American Historical Review “This useful addition to the literature on twentieth-century Mexican–United States diplomatic relations is a scholarly work, worthy of consideration by all students of the subject.”—American Historical Review Mexico and the United States in the Oil Controversy, 1917–1942 explores the relationship between the United States and Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century, with special attention to the Mexican nationalization of the oil industry. Relying on Mexican archival material never before analyzed, the author presents a unique perspective on the period following the Mexican Revolution and Mexico’s efforts to diminish its economic dependency on the United States. This work not only describes the political and economic struggle between the Mexican government and the U.S. oil companies but also serves to illustrate in general the nature of dependency between Latin American countries and the United States. It will be of interest not only to Mexican specialists but also to diplomatic and economic historians.

Book A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights

Download or read book A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights written by Patrick D. Lukens and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935 a federal court judge handed down a ruling that could have been disastrous for Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and all Latinos in the United States. However, in an unprecedented move, the Roosevelt administration wielded the power of "administrative law" to neutralize the decision and thereby dealt a severe blow to the nativist movement. A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights recounts this important but little-known story. To the dismay of some nativist groups, the Immigration Act of 1924, which limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted annually, did not apply to immigrants from Latin America. In response to nativist legal maneuverings, the 1935 decision said that the act could be applied to Mexican immigrants. That decision, which ruled that the Mexican petitioners were not "free white person[s]," might have paved the road to segregation for all Latinos. The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), founded in 1929, had worked to sensitize the Roosevelt administration to the tenuous position of Latinos in the United States. Advised by LULAC, the Mexican government, and the US State Department, the administration used its authority under administrative law to have all Mexican immigrants--and Mexican Americans--classified as "white." It implemented the policy when the federal judiciary "acquiesced" to the New Deal, which in effect prevented further rulings. In recounting this story, complete with colorful characters and unlikely bedfellows, Patrick Lukens adds a significant chapter to the racial history of the United States.Ê

Book   Pobre Raza

    Book Details:
  • Author : F. Arturo Rosales
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 0292770952
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Pobre Raza written by F. Arturo Rosales and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing the social and political turmoil spawned by the Mexican Revolution, massive numbers of Mexican immigrants entered the southwestern United States in the early decades of the twentieth century. But instead of finding refuge, many encountered harsh, anti-Mexican attitudes and violence from an Anglo population frightened by the influx of foreigners and angered by anti-American sentiments in Mexico. This book examines the response of Mexican immigrants to Anglo American prejudice and violence early in the twentieth century. Drawing on archival sources from both sides of the border, Arturo Rosales traces the rise of "México Lindo" nationalism and the efforts of Mexican consuls to help poor Mexican immigrants defend themselves against abuses and flagrant civil rights violations by Anglo citizens, police, and the U.S. judicial system. This research illuminates a dark era in which civilian and police brutality, prejudice in the courtroom, and disproportionate arrest, conviction, and capital punishment rates too often characterized justice for Mexican Americans.

Book The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence

Download or read book The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence written by Raymond J. Batvinis and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2007-03-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world prepared for war in the 1930s, the United States discovered that it faced the real threat of foreign spies stealing military and industrial secrets-and that it had no established means to combat them. Into that breach stepped J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Although the FBI's expanded role in World War II has been well documented, few have examined the crucial period before Pearl Harbor when the Bureau's powers secretly expanded to face the developing international emergency. Former FBI agent Raymond Batvinis now tells how the Bureau grew from a small law enforcement unit into America's first organized counterespionage and counterintelligence service. Batvinis examines the FBI's emerging new roles during the two decades leading up to America's entry into World War II to show how it cooperated and competed with other federal agencies. He takes readers behind the scenes, as the State Department and Hoover fought fiercely over the control of counterintelligence, and tells how the agency combined its crime-fighting expertise with its new wiretapping authority to spy on foreign agents. Based on newly declassified documents and interviews with former agents, Batvinis's account reconstructs and greatly expands our understanding of the FBI's achievements and failures during this period. Among these were the Bureau's mishandling of the 1938 Rumrich/Griebl spy case, which Hoover slyly used to broaden his agency's powers; its cracking of the Duquesne Espionage Case in 1941, which enabled Hoover to boost public and congressional support to new heights; and its failure to understand the value of Soviet agent Walter Krivitsky, which slowed Bureau efforts to combat Soviet espionage in America. In addition, Batvinis offers a new view of the relationship between the FBI and the military, cites the crucial contributions of British intelligence to the FBI's counterintelligence education, and reveals the agency's ultra-secret role in mining financial records for the Treasury Department. He also reviews the early days of the top-secret Special Intelligence Service, which quietly dispatched FBI agents posing as businessmen to South America to spy on their governments. With an insider's knowledge and a storyteller's skill, Batvinis provides a page-turning history narrative that greatly revises our views of the FBI-and also resonates powerfully with our own post-9/11 world.

Book American Women

Download or read book American Women written by Durward Howes and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Current Biography

Download or read book Current Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Current Biography Yearbook

Download or read book Current Biography Yearbook written by Maxine Block and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of Current Biography Yearbook is to provide reference librarians, students, and researchers with objective, accurate, and well-documented biographical articles about living leaders in all fields of human accomplishment. Whenever feasible, obituary notices appear for persons whose biographies have been published in Current Biography. - Publisher.

Book Arbitration Series  American Mexican Claims Commission

Download or read book Arbitration Series American Mexican Claims Commission written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arbitration Series

Download or read book Arbitration Series written by United States. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Years of adventure  1874 1920

Download or read book Years of adventure 1874 1920 written by Herbert Hoover and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report to the Secretary of State  with Decisions Showing the Reasons for the Allowance Or Disallowance of the Claims

Download or read book Report to the Secretary of State with Decisions Showing the Reasons for the Allowance Or Disallowance of the Claims written by United States. American Mexican Claims Commission and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bizarre Careers of John R  Brinkley

Download or read book The Bizarre Careers of John R Brinkley written by R. Alton Lee and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1926, it seemed that John R. Brinkley's experimental rejuvenation cure—transplanting goat glands into aging men—had taken the nation by storm. Never mind that "Doc" Brinkley's medical credentials were shaky at best and that he prescribed medication over the airwaves via his high-power radio stations. To most in the medical field, he was a quack. But to his many patients and listeners, he was a brilliant surgeon, a savior of their lost manhood and youth. His rogue radio stations, XER and its successor XERA, eventually broadcast at an antenna-shattering 1,000,000 watts and not only were a megaphone for Brinkley's lucrative quackery but also hosted an unprecedented number of then-unknown country musicians and other guests. The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley tells the story of the infamous "Goat Gland Doctor"—a controversial medical charlatan, groundbreaking radio impresario, and prescient political campaigner—and recounts his amazing rags-to-riches-to-rags career. A master manipulator and skilled con artist, Brinkley left behind a patchwork of myths and unreliable personal accounts that many writers have merely perpetuated—until now. Alton Lee brings Brinkley's infamous legacy to the forefront, exploring how he ruthlessly exploited the sexual frustrations of aging men and the general public's antipathy toward medical doctors. Lee leaves no stone unturned in this account of a man who changed the course of American institutions forever.

Book Limits to Friendship

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert A. Pastor
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 1989-10-23
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Limits to Friendship written by Robert A. Pastor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-10-23 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing alternate chapters on such subjects as foreign policy, economic relations, immigration, and social influence, the authors present fresh and informative portaits of these two countries.

Book Army  Navy  Air Force Journal and Register

Download or read book Army Navy Air Force Journal and Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Civil Affairs

Download or read book Civil Affairs written by Harry Lewis Coles and published by . This book was released on with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: