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- <p>Keeney, C. Frank (Charles Franklin).</p> <p>United Mine Workers of America - History.</p> <p>Labor unions - West Virginia.</p> <p>Coal miners - Labor Unions - West Virginia - History.</p> <p>Labor disputes - West Virginia - History.</p> (1)
- <p>Marshall College (Huntington, W. Va.) </p> <p>New Deal, 1933-1939.</p> (1)
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What's The New Deal With Marshall? Depression Relief And Higher Education, Hubert Wesley Rolling
What's The New Deal With Marshall? Depression Relief And Higher Education, Hubert Wesley Rolling
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Employing archival research, this study examines the history of the New Deal’s influence on higher education, focusing on Marshall University, at the time Marshall College, from approximately 1932-1940. First, it analyzes the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and National Youth Administration (NYA) student part-time employment program’s impact on the college. Second, it discusses the PWA’s (Public Works Administration) and WPA’s (Works Progress Administration) building programs’ and flood relief efforts’ effect on Marshall. Finally, this study explores the political implications of the New Deal with emphasis on state politics and financial problems and their relationship to Marshall. A study of Marshall …
A Union Man: The Life Of C. Frank Keeney, Charles Belmont Keeney Iii
A Union Man: The Life Of C. Frank Keeney, Charles Belmont Keeney Iii
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
The problem with West Virginia is that it is not controlled by West Virginians. For over a century coal operators, who do not make this state their home but rather the source of their income, have controlled the destiny of West Virginia and its people. The native mountaineers, unaware of the wealth beneath their feet, were either scattered throughout the state or became coal miners themselves. Since that time all West Virginians, not merely coal miners or former land owners, have been subjected to the will of out of state companies because they not only control the mines and the …