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The Role Of The Budget Bureau In Truman's Domestic Legislative Program; An Examination Of Atomic Energy Control, Military Unification, Housing, And Civil Rights, Peter E. Piccillo
The Role Of The Budget Bureau In Truman's Domestic Legislative Program; An Examination Of Atomic Energy Control, Military Unification, Housing, And Civil Rights, Peter E. Piccillo
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
The role of the Budget Bureau in the domestic legislative program of Harry S. Truman began in the latter years of the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Long before his death, Roosevelt had lost the ability to lead Congress in the direction of liberal domestic reform legislation. He did, however, retain the power of his style, and maintained a majestic image of leadership and accomplishment. In hopes of regaining the legislative initiative after the war had been won, Roosevelt campaigned in 1944 on a platform of victory overseas and an “Economic Bill of Rights” at home. With the death of …
Thunder Without Lightning : Working Class Discontent In The United States, 1929-1937, Robert S. Mcelvaine
Thunder Without Lightning : Working Class Discontent In The United States, 1929-1937, Robert S. Mcelvaine
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
In nature, thunder cannot exist without lightning. In the political realm, however, the two are separable. Rumblings of discontent can, and often do, occur without the firebolt of revolution.
The depression of the 1930s was a decade of thunder on the left in the United States. The working class became increasingly conscious of itself and discontented with the existing socio-economic system. The peals were always there, and they often reached crescendos. Yet the full force of the tempest never broke upon America in the thirties. The pages that follow explore the thundering and seek to explain how Franklin D. Roosevelt …
A Quantitative Comparative Study Of The Jewish And Palestine Political Elites (1920-48), Taisir Najm Nashif
A Quantitative Comparative Study Of The Jewish And Palestine Political Elites (1920-48), Taisir Najm Nashif
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
The object of this work is to study the backgrounds and circulation of the Jewish and Palestinian Arab political elites. Chapter I is a discussion of elite theory and its relevance for the study at hand, as well as a delineation of who constitutes the two elites and what features of their backgrounds and careers this study is concerned with.
Chapters II and III present a detailed quantitative analysis of the two elites’ backgrounds and circulation patterns. Circulation patterns are related to changes in or continuance of social background characteristics as indicators of recruitment patterns and political aims. Chapter IV …