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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Harry S."”.
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Harry S. Truman and Civil Rights
… The following points will highlight the role of Harry S. Truman in the continuing struggle for human rights: first, to study the sporadic and erratic nature of civil rights action in the United States as a reflection of public attitudes; second, to see how the complex social and psychological …
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Harry S. Truman and the Potsdam Conference
… delegation. In particular, I have tried to show Harry S Truman's actions and reactions when it came to a confrontation with the Allied Powers. From my research, I have developed a profound respect for the aptitude and leadership of this man. Therefore, I have devoted one chapter to a brief …
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Everything in My Power: Harry S. Truman and the Fight Against Racial Discrimination
… fails to recognize the centrality of President Harry S. Truman in the narrative of racial equality is in error. Driven by an ever-increasing recognition of the injustices of racial discrimination, Truman offered a comprehensive civil rights program to Congress on 2 February 1948. When his …
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Harry S Truman, the politics of Yalta, and the domestic origins of the Truman Doctrine
"Events in 1946 marked a pivotal turning point in the development of Cold War tensions. Both Stalin and Truman abandoned accommodationism in favor of a more aggressive foreign policy approach. U.S. activity in the Mediterranean, Iran, Europe, and Southeast Asia clearly indicated that lines of …
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Research on Broudy's theory of the uses of schooling
"Harry S. Broudy has studied the utility of general education through the development and testing of his Newspaper Test of the Uses of Schooling (NPT). The results of research with a new version of the NPT are reported in this essay and some options for future research are presented. The results of …
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The Zook Commission:Reassessing World War II Veterans' Influence on Higher Education
… at the recommendations presented to President Harry S. Truman in a report titled, <em>Higher Education for American Democracy, </em>and the influence veterans had on the Presidential Commission’s suggestions to President Truman. Through a major change in higher education ideology, the veterans …
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"Courage First" : dissent, debate, and the origins of US responsiveness to mass killing
… under presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman; mass killing in Bosnia (1992-1995) under presidents George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton; and mass killing in Rwanda (1994) under Clinton. A comparative analysis of US responsiveness to the
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Political party machines of the 1920s and 1930s: Tom Pendergast and The Kansas City democratic machine.
… or fought Pendergast, such as future president Harry S. Truman, Missouri U.S. Attorney Maurice Milligan and even Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Henry Agard Wallace and Latin America (1932-1946): The Limits of American Liberalism
… had manipulated enough delegates to nominate Harry S. Truman for Vice President on the second ballot at the 1944 Democratic convention as the regulars within the party flexed their muscle.</p> <p>The fight between the liberal New Dealers and the more conservative Dixiecrats and City Bosses …
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The presidential campaign of 1948
<p>In the sprint of 1948, President Harry S. Truman's chances of being re-elected to the presidency of the United States seemed very dubious. It was uncertain that he would even secure the Democratic nomination for that office.</p><p>Truman's pre-convention Western trip. In the early summer of 1948 …
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The role of the Budget Bureau in Truman's domestic legislative program: an examination of atomic energy control, military unification, housing, and civil rights
… Bureau in the domestic legislative program of Harry S. Truman began in the latter years of the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Long before his death, Roosevelt had lost the ability to lead Congress in the direction of liberal domestic reform legislation. He did, however, retain the power …
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"A Right to be Safely Born": The Quest for Health Justice for American Mothers and Children, 1890-1965
… oral histories, and the presidential papers of Harry S. Truman. Published primary materials have been culled from memoirs, professional public health and medical journals, as well as the popular press. I also draw from a body of historical and political science scholarship of the past …
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A study of the flow of water in the settling basins of the Detroit water works, its efficiency and improvement
Thesis (B.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1927
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The conversion of starch to dextrin
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry, 1894.
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American Opinion on Diplomatic Relations with the Vatican, 1945-1965
… clergymen presented some of these to President Harry S. Truman, Cardinal Spellman violently denounced their action. Many--but by no means all--of those who shared with the Cardinal a desire for the continuation of the Taylor mission were Catholics. Truman promised the Protestant delegation that …
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Paul V. McNutt, his role in the birth of Philippine independence
… to the island archipelago (1937-1939); President Harry S. Truman reappointed him to the same position (1945-1946); and after the Philippines received its independence on July 4, 1946, McNutt was appointed as the first United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines.This study has …
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The origin and implementation of the Truman doctrine
<p>The purpose of this paper is to examine the background of the rift between the Soviet and Western allies by selecting several of the more critical points of controvercy involved with the formulation of the Truman Doctrine.</p>