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The Use Of Troops In Labor Disputes In New Mexico, Richard B. Stephenson

Political Science ETDs

The military arm of the government of the state of New Mexico has been employed in three strikes and one possible potential strike danger zone since the year of 1912 when New Mexico became a state. The strikes were in the coal fields of McKinley and Colfax Counties in 1919; and the coal fields of McKinley County in 1922 and 1933. The possibly potential strike danger zone was Colfax County in 1927.

This thesis is devoted to a study of those four labor disputes. Each dispute is treated in a separate chapter, but the procedure used has been the same …

New Mexico's Delegations To The National Political Conventions Held In Chicago In 1952: A Case Study, Arthur Leon Devolder

Political Science ETDs

This study will undertake to introduce a basic picture of the process used in New Mexico to select delegates to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. In this State the delegations from both political parties are chosen in convention.

The 1950 Gubernatorial Campaign In New Mexico As Interpreted Through The State Press, Thomas Allyn Donnelly

Political Science ETDs

The purpose of this thesis is to present a study of the 1950 gubernatorial campaign in New Mexico. More specifically, it is an effort to discover why the Republican Party, out of power for twenty years in the state government, was able to recapture the chief executive's position.

A Study Of The Four Public Bridges Across The James River, Demitrios Basiliou Pantele

Master's Theses

As a result of its expansion to both the northern and southern banks of the James River, the city of Richmond, Virginia, has been obliged to construct a number of bridges in order to provide a link between the two parts of the city. There are now four such structures connecting north and south Richmond, the eldest dating back to the eighteenth century, with the most recent having been erected as recently as 1934. In the pages that follow it shall be our purpose to tell the story of these four spans not only from the point of view of …

A Study Of The Proposals To Divide The State Of California From 1860 To 1952, Roberta Blakley Mcdow

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The California of today is a union of complexities. It is a geographic giant composed of startling climatic and topographic variations. It is an economic elasticity satisfying the differing demands of agriculture, industry,and commerce. It is a social syncretism uniting a vast assortment of living patterns. With all of these diversities, California is a single, sovereign state.

Within the state, however, there are two obvious sections: Northern and Southern California.¹ They are separated, theoretically, by the Tehachapi mountain range, which runs east and west, on a line with the city of Santa Barbara. So pronounced is this sectionalism that …

World Government As Envisioned In The Latter-Day Saint "City Of Zion.", Hyrum Leslie Andrus

Theses and Dissertations

The Latter-day Saints look forward to an era of righteous peace under a world government having its central seats of authority in the City of Zion which is to be built upon the American continent and in Jerusalem upon the eastern hemisphere. (The probelm of this thesis is limited more specifically to the development of Zion's branch of this world order.) The earliest accounts of their history give information relating to basic principles and doctrines which have consistently developed to form a relatively complete concept of principles inherent within this proposed organization. This movement, designated as the "cause of Zion" …