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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Franklin Roosevelt"”.
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Acquaintances and contacts of Franklin Roosevelt : the first 86 days of 1934
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics and Social Science, 1960.
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Partnership of Power: The Relationship Between President Franklin Roosevelt and Vice President John Garner
… dynamics of the relationship between President Franklin Roosevelt and his first vice president, John Nance Garner. The document explores the historic partnership’s rise and fall.
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City of Ambition: Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and the Making of New Deal New York
This dissertation offers a new account of New York City's politics and government in the 1930s and 1940s. Focusing on the development of the functions and capacities of the municipal state, it examines three sets of interrelated political changes: the triumph of "municipal reform" over the …
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Presidential rhetoric in times of crisis: A textual analysis of speeches by franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan
… have examined the rhetoric of presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan individually, there is a gap in literature concerning crisis rhetoric specifically and little has been done in the way of comparing these two men. This study is a textual analysis of six speeches given by …
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Realignments of Doxa in U.S. American Politics: Tracing the Rhetorical Histories of Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama
… transformations. I explore the elections of Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama as markers of such shifts. In chapter one, I provide a statement of purpose and justification for my study, along with a description of the historical contexts of the 1932, 1980, and 2008 …
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Words of War: Their Speeches and Correspondence, November 1940-March 1941.
<p>Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt inspired the Allies with memorable speeches in their fight against the Axis Powers during World War II.</p><p>These speeches resulted from their personalities, preparation, and correspondence; and the speeches directed Allied …
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A historical analysis of the nomination of Wendell Lewis Willkie for the presidency of the United States of America
… of his convictions, waged a personal war against Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal - a war conducted outside the realm of partisan politics. His successes in the fight with the administration brough Willkie a measure of recognition and aroused the interest of certain Republicans who held similar …
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A history of the third term tradition, 1789-1928
… argument for or against it. From Washington to Franklin Roosevelt many different viewoints and arguments have been advanced. Out of the wealth of material which is available I have attempted so far as possible to select impartially representative utterances on both sides of the question.</p> …
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Words of War: Presidential Rationales for Military Action From World War II to Iraq
… of the population of modern presidents' (Franklin Roosevelt to George W. Bush) spoken, public wartime communications reveals substantial variation in the extent to which presidents have relied on these six rationales, and further shows that this variation is due more to the context in …
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Justice Robert Jackson and the evolution of administrative law
… and then Attorney General under President Franklin Roosevelt, and then as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1941 to his death in 1954, is used as the focal point for the examination. Jackson's work as government attorney had considerable impact on the field of administrative law, …
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From Victory to Defeat: The Chinese Mission in Japan, 1946-1952
… of the “Big Four” as envisaged by President Franklin Roosevelt in the final years of World War II. However, the standing and eminence of the Chinese Mission in Japan ebbed away as the Kuomintang lost ground in the Chinese Civil War and eventually retreated to the island of Taiwan in 1949. …
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Seeing the constitution as they see it: Presidential reconstitutions, executive power, and interbranch conflict
… power: Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt. Jackson’s Veto Message on the Bank defended a “glass cage” Constitution, where the slightest deviation would shatter an authoritative but fragile document. Lincoln defended the suspension of habeas corpus (his most controversial …
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Hyde Park and Chartwell in History and Heritage
This dissertation examines Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill’s lives and legacies through the lens of their homes. This dissertation argues that homes are fertile sites for contending with the character of political leaders as physical expressions of identity. In Part One the author focuses …
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One route to affirmative action: executive orders and equal employment opportunities for blacks, 1941-1965
… by political and moral considerations. President Franklin Roosevelt, responding to pressure from civil rights leaders, issued the first equal employment order in 1941. Designed to open employment in government and in defense industries, it created the Fair Employment Practice Committee. President …
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The Monetary Theory and Practice of the Federal Reserve, 1914–35
… future crises. As a result, in 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt assumed control of the nation’s monetary policy through dollar devaluation and expansive gold policy, while simultaneously enacting legislation that would centralise—and strengthen—the Fed’s monetary authority. Such contradictory …
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Drugi Potop: The Fall of the Second Polish Republic
<p>This thesis seeks to examine the factors that resulted in the fall of the Second Polish Republic and track its downward trajectory. Examining the Second Republic, from its creation in 1918 to its loss of recognition in 1945, reveals that its demise began long before German tanks violated …