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This study focuses upon the Texas congressional delegation from 1933 to 1938 in an attempt to determine the extent of southern insurgency within that group. Following an examination of the Redeemer-insurgent dichotomy in southern politics since Reconstruction, the thesis analyzes roll-call votes on New Deal legislation concerning agricultural, financial, relief, and labor reform issues to demonstrate that a spirit of southern insurgency existed in Texas politics in the 1930's. The study concludes that Morris Sheppard, Sam Rayburn, Maury Maverick, W. D. McFarlane, R. Ewing Thomason, and Lyndon B. Johnson were politicians in the tradition of southern insurgents. The influence of these men, especially Sheppard, Rayburn, and Maverick, on the passage of legislation reflecting insurgent demands is demonstrated to be significant.

Voter turnout in the United States began to decline at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, and since then, turnout has not returned to the high percentages that were commonplace in the 1860s and 1870s. Numerous scholars point to the late 1800s and early 1900s as the era when significant changes in voting, turnout, and political party competition took place. Many of these same scholars contend that the consequences of these changes, such as continuing low voter turnout, can be seen today. Yet, scholars have made very few efforts to connect what happened in the past to what is happening today. In this thesis I attempt to examine the root causes of declining voter turnout in the United States at the turn of the 20th century. The significance of this examination rests with the thought that if we can understand why voter turnout began to fall we may then have a clearer sense of why low voter turnout persists today. Specifically, this study tests two competing theoretical models, one by V.O. Key and Walter Dean Burnham and the other by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, that claim to explain how and why turnout began to fall in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Both models use the same variables -- voting statutes, political party competition, and voter turnout -- to explain this fall, but the models place these variables in different time sequences.. This thesis tests the models by examining dynamics found in a single city -- Richmond, Virginia. Richmond affords an opportunity to inspect dynamics of voter turnout at the turn of the 20th century in a geographic area of the country that neither model used as a basis for its theoretical propositions. / Master of Arts

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1932 G51 / Master of Science

The purpose of this monograph is to study the early Texas Republican party within the framework of well-known political party functions, i.e., to provide political leadership, recruit governmental personnel, generate public policy, and propagate ideology.

The purpose of this paper is to give a descriptive history of the Republican party in Texas during the reconstruction period.

Presidential reconstruction in Texas proceeded under the direction of provisional governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton, a Texas Unionist. Texas Unionists had deep political roots in pre-war politics and sought to reconstruct along moderate lines. Following the constitutional convention of 1866, conservative James Webb Throckmorton won the gubernatorial race against Unionist Elisha Marshall Pease. Throckmorton's administration did very little to curb the intense violence directed at Unionists in Texas, and the conservative legislature passed legislation repressive to blacks. Texas Unionists grew increasingly radical, and Throckmorton clashed with the federal military over the question of authority. After the Radicals in Congress passed the Reconstruction Acts, Throckmorton was removed as governor, and E.M. Pease was appointed in his place, ending presidential reconstruction in Texas.

The New York State politicians, notably members of Congress such as Irving Ives, Herbert Lehman, Samuel Dickstein, Emanuel Celler and Jacob Javits, were very involved in the immigration debates for the period from 1945 to 1953. By their interventions, they emerged as fiery supporters of a liberalization of American immigration policy. A willingness to satisfy a multiethnic electorate largely explains their position. But these individuals, mostly defenders of President Truman's foreign policy, also believed in this cold war context that an attenuation of restrictionism in immigration would provide numerous advantages to the nation. If their attitude seems dictated by considerations that were both pragmatic and idealistic, it generated non-negligible results. Thus, the granting of a quota to India in 1946, the act on the war brides in 1945, as well as the legislation affecting the refugees in 1950, were among the measures mainly ascribable to the activities of these politicians.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Artes, 2011. / Submitted by Shayane Marques Zica (marquacizh@uol.com.br) on 2011-10-17T09:58:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_ElisaTeixeiradeSouza.pdf: 5895328 bytes, checksum: b4af31db2c780db698d29cb78efc4dc1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Leila Fernandes (leilabiblio@yahoo.com.br) on 2011-10-18T10:54:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_ElisaTeixeiradeSouza.pdf: 5895328 bytes, checksum: b4af31db2c780db698d29cb78efc4dc1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-10-18T10:54:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_ElisaTeixeiradeSouza.pdf: 5895328 bytes, checksum: b4af31db2c780db698d29cb78efc4dc1 (MD5) / Aborda idéias de dois importantes provocadores da dança moderna: François Delsarte e Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, bem como influências exercidas por suas idéias e práticas sobre a dança cênica nascida no início do século XX, considerando o papel desempenhado nesse processo pela cultura física chamada Delsartismo Norte-Americano. Fornece dados e informações biográficas referentes a Delsarte e Dalcroze, assim como informações menos aprofundadas relativas a outros personagens da história da dança moderna, como Isadora Duncan, Ruth Saint Denis, Ted Shawn, Mary Wigman, Rudolf Laban e Vaslav Nijinsky. Apresenta o sistema filosófico de Delsarte para a expressividade gestual e o método de Dalcroze de aprendizado rítmico corporal. Ao discutir o Delsartismo Norte-Americano, ressalta e contextualiza a participação de Steele Mackaye e Genevieve Stebbins no processo de gestação da dança moderna norte-americana, bem como a reflexão de Ted Shawn a respeito da influência delsarteana nessa dança e a participação de Henrietta Hovey na Denishawn School. Por fim, relaciona o sistema de Delsarte com o método de Dalcroze e explora conexões existentes entre estes e inovações expressivas trazidas por emblemáticos representantes da dança moderna norte-americana e européia. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / It addresses the ideas of two provocative modern dance: François Delsarte and Emile Jaques-Dalcroze as well as influences exerted by their ideas and practices on the new dance born in the early twentieth century, considering in this process the role played by the physical culture called North American Delsartism. Provides biographical information and data relating to Delsarte and Dalcroze as well as less detailed information relating to other personalities involved in the history of modern dance, like Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, Mary Wigman, Rudolf Laban and Vaslav Nijinsky. Presents the philosophical system of Delsarte for gestural expressiveness and Dalcroze method of rhythmic body learning. In discussing the North American Delsartism, highlights and contextualizes the participation of Steele Mackaye and Genevieve Stebbins. It also deals with the reflection of Ted Shawn about the delsartist influence and participation in this dance, as well as the Henrietta Hovey participation on the Denishawn School. Finally, it relates the Delsarte system with the Dalcroze method and explores connections between these and expressive innovations brought by significative representatives of North American and European modern dance.

Reacting to the Great Depression, Texans abandoned the philosophy of rugged individualism and turned to their state and federal governments for leadership. Texas's Governor Miriam Ferguson resultantly created the state's first relief agency, which administered all programs including those federally funded. Because the Roosevelt administration ordered state participation in and immediate implementation of the CCC, a multi-governmental, multi-departmental administrative alliance involving state and federal efforts resulted, which, because of scholars' preferences for research at the federal level, often is mistakenly described as a decentralized administration riddled with bureaucratic shortcomings. CCC operations within Texas, however, revealed that this complicated administrative structure embodied the reasons for the CCC's well-documented success.