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A Study Of Apportionment In Indiana., Stannard Kinneth Short 1911-1977

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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News For Labor's Non-Partisan League Of California & Humboldt County, Labor's Non-Partisan League Of California & Humboldt County

Ina and Noel Harris Collection

Article on national program drawn up on plans for peace, civil rights, work for unemployed, social security, pensions, health, etc. Endorsement committee selected for Democratic primaries as well as speakers announced. Eureka Federated Trades and Labor Council passes resolution.

Labor's Non-Partisan League

236 D St.

Eureka, California

Voting Flyer From Labor's Non-Partisan League Of Humboldt County, Califorinia, Labor's Non-Partisan League Of Humboldt County

Ina and Noel Harris Collection

Voting flyer from Labor's Non-Partisan League of Humboldt County [Vol 1, No. 4] - on state league recommendations for November 7. Advertisement to attend benefit dance and clam chowder supper at Worker's Alliance Hall.

Redwood Bulletin Vol.2. No. 4, Trade Union Section

Ina and Noel Harris Collection

Pamphlet issued by Trade Union Section of Communist Party in Eureka outlining a program for the upcoming city election; with special attention to reworking labor rights and potentially collaborating with local churches and their congregations.

PO Box 417 Eureka, Cal. REDWOOD BULLETIN

Issued by Trade Union Section, Communist

Party Humboldt County

The Social Security Act, William C. Streek

Bachelors’ Theses

This dissertation is closely confined to a study of the Social Security Act, the provisions made by the Federal Government in aiding the states and the plans used by the various states. Data which have been incorporated into this thesis are the latest available at the time of writing. During 1935 the Congress of the United States passed a law, introduced and sponsored by Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, called the "Social Security Act." The vote in the House of Representatives was 372 to 33; in the Senate 77 to 6. President Roosevelt signed the Act on August …

Ua37/23 Whas Broadcast No. 23, Whas, Western Kentucky University, Earl Moore

WKU Administration Documents

Script for weekly WKU broadcast on WHAS radio. includes letter from Henry Cherry advertising the debate program between WKU and Asbury College. Debaters were Paul Huddleston and Coy Parsley discussing the power of the Supreme Court.

Niskey, Lima, Moore Come Under Wire Just Before Closing Period, Unknown

Ina and Noel Harris Collection

Article on last minute candidacies filed with City Clerk. Brief background on candidates who made these late submissions: Niskey, Lima and Moore.

[Unknown author and missing rest of article]

The War With Germany: A Statistical Summary, Leonard P. Ayres

United States Army: Publications

Includes a statistical summary of the larger steps in the military preparation and action of the United States in the First World War (United States involvement, April 6, 1917-November 11, 1918). The data presented were compiled by the several sections of the Statistics Branch of the General Staff. In the main they set forth facts taken from the reports made by the Branch each week during the war to the President, the Secretary of War, and to the Chief of Staff. These have been supplemented by facts and figures secured from the offices of the Statistics Branch maintained during the …

Ua3/1/3 Scrapbook - General Subjects 1916-1918, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Administration Documents

Scrapbook created in the president's office of clippings related to World War I, Henry Cherry's bid for governor and United States politics during the war. Page number correspond to original scrapbook and may not match pdf file.

• . . . Tells How He'd March to Mexico, p. 17
• A Perfect Picture of German Work, p. 34
• A Veritable Flashlight, p. 19
• Abercrombie, John. Speech, Congressional Record, June 2, 1916, p. 12
• Addresses Made at Flag Raising, 1917 p.9
• All Kentucky is in Food Crusade, p. 13
• America at War in Self Defense, Declares Lane, p. 11
• America Now at Point …

Washington's Farewell Address: The President’S Address To The People Of The United States, Announcing His Intention Of Retiring From Public Life At The Expiration Of The Present Constitutional Term Of Presidency, George Washington

Electronic Texts in American Studies

This is a digital “facsimile” edition of a contemporary pamphlet version of President George Washington’s “Farewell Address,” first issued in the Philadelphia Daily Advertiser newspaper on September 19, 1796. Co-authored with James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, it expresses Washington’s decision to decline a third term of the presidency and offers his parting advice to his “friends and fellow-citizens.”

Washington’s “farewell address” emphasizes the importance of Union, the danger of partisanship, the threat of parties allied to foreign countries or interests, the accomplishment of a national government, the precedence of national over sectional interests, the maintenance of the public credit, the …

'Farewell' Address To The People Of The United States, Announcing His Intention Of Retiring From Public Life At The Expiration Of The Present Constitutional Term Of Presidency, George Washington

Zea E-Books in American Studies

President George Washington’s farewell address “To the People of the United States” was delivered to the public through the medium of the Philadelphia Daily Advertiser newspaper and was immediately reprinted in other newspapers and in pamphlet form throughout the country, and in England, Ireland, and Scotland as well. All contemporary editions derived directly or indirectly from the Daily Advertiser newspaper source.

The composition of the address was a collaborative effort, with James Madison co-authoring with Washington an early draft that was reviewed and revised at least twice to incorporate suggestions by Alexander Hamilton. The final draft, in Washington’s handwriting, was …

The Journal Of Major George Washington, George Washington

Zea E-Books in American Studies

In October of 1753, George Washington, a 21-year-old major in the Virginia militia, volunteered to carry a letter from the governor of Virginia to the French commander of the forts recently built on the headwaters of the Ohio River in northwestern Pennsylvania. The French had recently expanded their military operations from the Great Lakes into the Ohio country, and had spent the summer of 1753 building forts and roads along the Allegheny River, with the design of linking their trade routes and sphere of influence down the Ohio to the Mississippi. Virginia governor Robert Dinwiddie believed them to be in …

A Declaration Of The Sad And Great Persecution And Martyrdom Of The People Of God, Called Quakers, In New-England, For The Worshipping Of God, Edward Burroughs

Zea E-Books in American Studies

From 1656 through 1661, the Massachusetts Bay Colony experienced an “invasion” of Quaker missionaries, who were not deterred by the increasingly severe punishments enacted and inflicted by the colonial authorities. In October 1659, two (William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson) were hanged at Boston; in June 1660, Mary Dyar (or Dyer) became the third; in March 1661, William Leddra became the fourth (and last) to suffer capital punishment or “mar-tyrdom” for their Quaker beliefs.While members of the Society of Friends rushed to Massachu-setts to test the harsh sentences under the newly enacted laws, other Friends in England simultaneously petitioned Parliament and …