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Book Lobby Investigation  March 12 14  18 21  1930

Download or read book Lobby Investigation March 12 14 18 21 1930 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lobby Investigation  October 15 18  21 23  1929

Download or read book Lobby Investigation October 15 18 21 23 1929 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lobby Investigation

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1930
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1778 pages

Download or read book Lobby Investigation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates trade association efforts to influence U.S. tariff policy.

Book Lobby Investigation  February 18 21  25 28  March 4 7  1930

Download or read book Lobby Investigation February 18 21 25 28 March 4 7 1930 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index of Congressional Committee Hearings

Download or read book Index of Congressional Committee Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Library and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index of Congressional Committee Hearings  not Confidential in Character  Prior to January 3  1935

Download or read book Index of Congressional Committee Hearings not Confidential in Character Prior to January 3 1935 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Library and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Repealing National Prohibition

Download or read book Repealing National Prohibition written by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the political reaction against the 18th Amendment, a response that led to its reversal 14 years later by the 21st Amendment. This work uses archival evidence to examine the liquor ban and to draw attention to the bi-partisan movement led by the Association Against Prohibition Amendment.

Book Historians in Service of a Better South

Download or read book Historians in Service of a Better South written by Andrew Myers and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2017-04-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the soaring oratory of Martin Luther King and the fiery rhetoric of George Wallace, scholars who worked with the Southern Regional Council during the civil rights movement spoke quietly, but with the authority of informed reason. Prominent among them was Professor Paul Gaston of the University of Virginia, who co-authored an influential analysis of school segregation, served as president of the SRC board, and authored The New South Creed. Gaston’s legacy of service includes his role as a mentor of historians. He oversaw more than two dozen dissertations at UVA from 1957 to the year 2000. These illuminated important aspects of the South and the civil rights movement while contributing to the growth of community and organizational studies within the field of social history. The articles in this Festschrift feature essays that he inspired among his students and colleagues.

Book The Philosopher Lobbyist

Download or read book The Philosopher Lobbyist written by Mordecai Lee and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of John Dewey’s leadership of the progressive People’s Lobby. John Dewey (1859–1952) was a preeminent American philosopher who is remembered today as the founder of what is called child-centered or progressive education. In The Philosopher-Lobbyist, Mordecai Lee tells the largely forgotten story of Dewey’s effort to influence public opinion and promote democratic citizenship. Based on Dewey’s 1927 book The Public and Its Problems, the People’s Lobby was a trailblazing nonprofit agency, an early forerunner of the now common public interest lobbying group. It used multiple forms of mass communication, grassroots organizing, and lobbying to counteract the many special interest groups and lobbies that seemed to be dominating policymaking in Congress and in the White House. During the 1930s, Dewey and the People’s Lobby criticized the New Deal as too conservative and championed a social democratic alternative, including a more progressive tax system, government ownership of natural monopolies, and state operation of the railroad system. While its impact on historical developments was small, the story of the People’s Lobby is an important reminder of a historical road not traveled and a policy agenda that was not adopted, but could have been.

Book Congressional Committee Hearings  an Index

Download or read book Congressional Committee Hearings an Index written by United States. Congress. House. Library and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index to Congressional Committee Hearing in the Library of the United States House of Representatives

Download or read book Index to Congressional Committee Hearing in the Library of the United States House of Representatives written by United States. Congress. House. Library and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Randolph Haynes

Download or read book John Randolph Haynes written by Tom Sitton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four decades, John Randolph Haynes (1853-1937) was in the forefront of social-reform crusades and political action in Los Angeles and California, with his most important legacies in the fields of direct legislation and public ownership of utilities. He was the individual most responsible for the adoption of the initiative, referendum, and recall in Los Angeles in 1902 and in California in 1911. His vigilant protection of these measures thereafter and his promotion of direct legislation throughout the nation earned him the title "father of direct legislation" in California. From 1910 until his death, Haynes's chief priority was to shape the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power into a glowing example of public ownership of utilities. Today, LADWP operates the world's largest municipal water and electrical power generation and distribution system, continuing to serve the needs of an ever-growing region whose extent even Haynes could not have envisaged. In many ways, Haynes is an enigma. He was not a typical progressive, having amassed a fortune in his medical practice and in real estate, mining, and other capitalistic ventures. However, he spent a large portion of his wealth to promote a form of gradual, democratic socialism in the United States. Haynes advocated the transformation of the nation's economy and government, yet he campaigned for morality laws that limited personal freedom. Haynes's motivation was not social status or money, both of which he had before his conversion to social reform. Nor was it political power: he never ran for office (except as a temporary freeholder) or created a personal political machine. His primary motive was a perhaps arrogant yet honest desire to aid in the creation of a more just society by improving the living and working conditions of the less fortunate. In one way or another, Haynes participated in all the major social and political events that shaped California and Los Angeles in a most dynamic era of their development. In a broader sense, Haynes's life serves as a yardstick with which to measure other progressives of his time and as a key for understanding the motivation of those idealists who helped shape our present political institutions.

Book Reforming Hollywood

    Book Details:
  • Author : William D. Romanowski
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-06-26
  • ISBN : 0199969183
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Reforming Hollywood written by William D. Romanowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Communication Association's Book of the Year Hollywood and Christianity often seem to be at war. Indeed, there is a long list of movies that have attracted religious condemnation, from Gone with the Wind with its notorious "damn," to The Life of Brian and The Last Temptation of Christ. But the reality, writes William Romanowski, has been far more complicated--and remarkable. In Reforming Hollywood, Romanowski, a leading historian of popular culture, explores the long and varied efforts of Protestants to influence the film industry. He shows how a broad spectrum of religious forces have played a role in Hollywood, from Presbyterians and Episcopalians to fundamentalists and evangelicals. Drawing on personal interviews and previously untouched sources, he describes how mainline church leaders lobbied filmmakers to promote the nation's moral health and, perhaps surprisingly, how they have by and large opposed government censorship, preferring instead self-regulation by both the industry and individual conscience. "It is this human choice," noted one Protestant leader, "that is the basis of our religion." Tensions with Catholics, too, have loomed large--many Protestant clergy feared the influence of the Legion of Decency more than Hollywood's corrupting power. Romanowski shows that the rise of the evangelical movement in the 1970s radically altered the picture, in contradictory ways. Even as born-again clergy denounced "Hollywood elites," major studios noted the emergence of a lucrative evangelical market. 20th Century-Fox formed FoxFaith to go after the "Passion dollar," and Disney took on evangelical Philip Anschutz as a partner to bring The Chronicles of Narnia to the big screen. William Romanowski is an award-winning commentator on the intersection of religion and popular culture. Reforming Hollywood is his most revealing, provocative, and groundbreaking work on this vital area of American society.

Book Alcohol  Reform and Society

Download or read book Alcohol Reform and Society written by Jack S. Blocker Jr. and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1979-10-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Blocker's collection of nine essays represents one of the most impressive moves toward a comprehensive examination of the liquor issue. The collection attempts to evaluate the role of alcohol in society, examine the origins of the temperance and prohibition movements, and analyze the organized movement for repeal.