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A Survey Of Bond Campaign Procedures Followed By A Selected Number Of California School Districts, John William Adamson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

California Schools have experienced an unprecedented growth during the past several years. Enrollments in many school districts within the state have more than doubled since the end of World War II.

It took California ninety years to enroll its first million children in school in 1940. It took only thirteen years to enroll the second million in 1953. It will take only an estimated five years to enroll the third million by 1958.¹ Practically every California school system, therefore, is faced with the continuing problem of providing more classrooms to house these new pupils. To provide funds for additional …

A Study Of Junior Sportsman Clubs Throughout The United States With Special Reference To The Lodi Junior Sportsmen, Joseph Allen Wilson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This study will trace the history and development of a new idea in recreation, that of the Junior Sportsmen’s Club. This program was first worked out by the writer ar Lodi, California, while he was employed by the Lodi Recreation Department, and has in a few short years spread throughout the United States. The writer feels the inasmuch as the project has been an actual field experiment, his study should be of value to other communities or to other leaders in recreation. This provides the reason as well as the justification for this study.

The Brannan Plan And The Agricultural Act Of 1949: A Recent Controversy Over Federal Farm Policy, Jean Callis

Student Scholarship

This research project examines the intense legislative and political conflict surrounding United States farm policy following World War II. Presented in January 1950, the study focuses on the transition from wartime production incentives to a permanent peacetime support system intended to prevent the economic collapses that historically followed falling farm prices. 

At the heart of the controversy was the Brannan Plan, proposed by Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan. The plan sought to abandon traditional parity formulas in favor of an income support standard based on the purchasing power of farm income from 1939 to 1948. A key innovation was …

Yale Political Journal; A Magazine Of Student Opinion 1948 Spring, The Politic, Inc.

The Politic

No abstract provided.

Yale Political Journal; A Magazine Of Student Opinion 1947 October, The Politic, Inc.

The Politic

No abstract provided.

Yale Political Journal; A Magazine Of Student Opinion 1947 February, The Politic, Inc.

The Politic

No abstract provided.

The History And Enforcement Of The Federal Food, Drug, And Cosmetic Act Since 1938, William Ebert Morrissey

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In the undertaking a recent history of such a fundamental law as one that deals with food, drugs and cosmetics in its relationship to the human race, we should realize that such a field has a history possibly as old as man himself. There have always been individuals in the good and welfare of others, and there have always been individuals interested in taking advantage of their fellow man for personal gain, frequently in an exceedingly unscrupulous manner.

The Solicitor General of the United States, in a recent paper read at the commemoration the the fortieth anniversary of the original …

Postwar Planning For The State Of Maine, Maine Development Commission

Maine Collection

Postwar Planning for the State of Maine by the Maine Development Commission, as Compiled November 1, 1944

Compiled and Published by the Maine Development Commission, Augusta, Maine, 1944.

Contents: Introduction / General Employment Data / State Projects / Municipal Projects / List of Tables and Illustrations.