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Robert M. La Follette School of Public Policy Commencement Address
Robert M. La Follette School of Public Policy Commencement Address May 19, 2013 Bob Lang Thank you for inviting me to be a part of the celebration of your commencement -- graduation from the University of Wisconsin's Robert M. La Follette School of Public Policy. I have had the privilege of serving in Wisconsin's Legislative Fiscal Bureau with many La Follette graduates, including the 10 who are currently colleagues of mine at the Bureau. I am honored to be with you today. ____________________________ I have two favorite commencement speeches. The first, written 410 years ago, was not delivered to a graduating class, but rather, to an individual. It was, however, a commencement address in the true meaning of the word -- that is to recognize a beginning -- a transition from the present to the future. And, in the traditional sense of commencement speeches, was filled with advice. The speech was given by a father to his son, in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Polonius, chief councilor to Denmark's King Claudius, gives his son Laertes sage advice as the young man patiently waits for his talkative father to complete his lengthy speech and bid him farewell before the son sets sail for France to Page 1 continue his studies. "Those friends thou hast, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel." "Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice." "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." "This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." The second of my favorite commencement addresses was delivered to a graduating college class by Thornton Mellen. -
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The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism Anne Claire Diebel Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2013 © 2013 Anne Claire Diebel All rights reserved ABSTRACT The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism Anne Claire Diebel The history of personality in American literature has surprisingly little to do with the differentiating individuality we now tend to associate with the term. Scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American culture have defined personality either as the morally vacuous successor to the Protestant ideal of character or as the equivalent of mass-media celebrity. In both accounts, personality is deliberately constructed and displayed. However, hiding in American writings of the long modernist period (1880s–1940s) is a conception of personality as the innate capacity, possessed by few, to attract attention and elicit projection. Skeptical of the great American myth of self-making, such writers as Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, Nathanael West, and Langston Hughes invented ways of representing individuals not by stable inner qualities but by their fascinating—and, often, gendered and racialized—blankness. For these writers, this sense of personality was not only an important theme and formal principle of their fiction and non-fiction writing; it was also a professional concern made especially salient by the rise of authorial celebrity. This dissertation both offers an alternative history of personality in American literature and culture and challenges the common critical assumption that modernist writers took the interior life to be their primary site of exploration and representation. -
Mason Williams
City of Ambition: Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and the Making of New Deal New York Mason Williams Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2012 © 2012 Mason Williams All Rights Reserved Abstract City of Ambition: Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and the Making of New Deal New York Mason Williams 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 institutions and practices of the Tammany Hall political machine and its outer-borough counterparts; the incorporation of hundreds of thousands of new voters into the electorate and into urban political life more broadly; and the development of an ambitious and capacious public sector—what Joshua Freeman has recently described as a “social democratic polity.” It places these developments within the context of the national New Deal, showing how national officials, responding to the limitations of the American central state, utilized the planning and operational capacities of local governments to meet their own imperatives; and how national initiatives fed back into subnational politics, redrawing the bounds of what was possible in local government as well as altering the strength and orientation of local political organizations. The dissertation thus seeks not only to provide a more robust account of this crucial passage in the political history of America’s largest city, but also to shed new light on the history of the national New Deal—in particular, its relation to the urban social reform movements of the Progressive Era, the long-term effects of short-lived programs such as work relief and price control, and the roles of federalism and localism in New Deal statecraft. -
The Vice Presidential Bust Collection Brochure, S
Henry Wilson Garfield. Although his early political success had design for the American buffalo nickel. More than (1812–1875) ⓲ been through the machine politics of New York, 25 years after sculpting the Roosevelt bust, Fraser Daniel Chester French, Arthur surprised critics by fighting political created the marble bust of Vice President John 1886 corruption. He supported the first civil service Nance Garner for the Senate collection. THE Henry Wilson reform, and his administration was marked by epitomized the honesty and efficiency. Because he refused to Charles G. Dawes American Dream. engage in partisan politics, party regulars did not (1865–1951) VICE PRESIDENTIAL Born to a destitute nominate him in 1884. Jo Davidson, 1930 family, at age 21 he Prior to World War I, BUST COLLECTION Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens originally walked to a nearby Charles Dawes was a declined to create Arthur’s official vice presidential town and began a lawyer, banker, and bust, citing his own schedule and the low business as a cobbler. Wilson soon embarked on politician in his native commission the Senate offered. Eventually he a career in politics, and worked his way from the Ohio. During the war, reconsidered, and delivered the finished work in Massachusetts legislature to the U.S. Senate. In a he became a brigadier politically turbulent era, he shifted political parties 1892. One of America’s best known sculptors, Saint-Gaudens also created the statue of Abraham general and afterwards several times, but maintained a consistent stand headed the Allied against slavery throughout his career. Wilson was Lincoln in Chicago’s Lincoln Park and the design reparations commission. -
The Salon of Mabel Dodge
DIVISION OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91125 THE SALON OF MABEL DODGE Robert A. Rosenstone To be published in Peter Quennell, ed., Salon (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980). HUMANITIES WORKING PAPER 24 January 1979 THE SALON OF ~WillEL DODGE Robert A. Rosenstone Mabel Dodge's salon ••• burst upon New York like a rocket. Margaret Sanger It was the only successful salon I have ever seen in America. Lincoln Steffens Many famous salons have been established by women of wit or beauty; Mabel's was the only one ever established by pure will power. And it was no second-rate salon; everybody in the ferment of ideas could be found there. Max Eastman 2 It is indeed the happy woman who has no history, for by happy we mean the loving and beloved, and by history we designate all those relatable occurences on earth caused by the human energies seeking other outlets than the biological one. • . That I have so many pages to write signifies, solely, that I was unlucky in love. Most of the pages are about what I did instead •. Mabel Dodge 1 Mabel Dodge was rich and attractive and more than a little lucky. For two years -- from 1912 to 1914 -- she played hostess to the most famous and no doubt the most interesting salon in American history. This success was no accident, but the result of a subtle interplay between her individual needs and ambitions and the historical moment. It was a very special period in the cultural life of the United States, one when expatriate Irish painter John Butler Yeats cocked an ear and heard "the fiddles • tuning as it were allover America. -
Georg Brandes. Jo Davidsons Buste Er Opstillet I Informationssalen På Det Kongelige Bibliotek
m Georg Brandes. Jo Davidsons buste er opstillet i Informationssalen på Det kongelige Bibliotek. 20 Brandes "headhunted" Jo Davidsons buste af Georg Brandes af forskningsbibliotekar, cand.mag. Merete Licht Da Brandes den 25. november 1913 holdt sin Shakespeare forelæsning i Cax- ton Hall i London, blev den overværet af to unge amerikanske kunstnere, den ene var fotografen Alvin Langdon Coburn og den anden billedhuggeren Jo Davidson. Begge besluttede på stedet, at de ville portrættere ham. Det ved vi, fordi en tredje ung amerikaner var til stede samme aften, nemlig litteratur kritikeren Van Wyck Brooks. Han var en stor beundrer af Brandes ("I have read Brandes with rapture at Stanford"), og det var ham, der havde taget de to venner med til forelæsningen. I sine erindringer giver han et billede af af tenens forløb og fortæller om Jo Davidson, at han efter forelæsningen "was determined to make a bust of Brandes". Lige så forskellige de to kunstneres medier var, Cobums var fotografiet og Davidsons leret, lige så forskellige var deres temperamenter, så aftenens resultat blev Brandes afspejlet i to kunstneriske temperamenter: Cobums por træt af ham findes gengivet og omtalt i Magasin, årg. 5, nr. 1, 1990, Jo Da vidsons buste står i dag i Informationssalen på Det kongelige Bibliotek, og det er om dens tilblivelse og skaber, denne artikel handler. Var resultaterne end forskellige, var udgangspunktet det samme. Begge kunstnere fæstnede sig ved een bestemt egenskab hos Brandes, nemlig hans "alertness", et lidt uoversætteligt ord, der indeholder elementer af livfuldhed og nysgerrighed tilsat et anstrøg af åndeligt alarmberedskab. Coburn koncen trerede sig især om "mental alertness", den Brandes der lyser ud af hans por træt er en næsten æterisk person, og man er ikke et øjeblik i tvivl om, at det er en person af ånd, man har for sig. -
HISTORY of OKLAHOMA CONGRESSMEN U.S
HISTORY OF OKLAHOMA CONGRESSMEN u.s. Senate - Thomas Pryor Gore (D) elected 1907; J. W. Harreld (R) elected 1920; Elmer Thomas (D) elected 1926; Mike Monroney (D) elected 1950; Henry Bellmon (R) elected 1968; Don Nickles (R) elected 1980. u.S. Senate - Robert L. Owen (D) elected 1907; W. B. Pine (R) elected 1924; ThomasP. Gore (D) elected 1930; Josh Lee (D) elected 1936; E. H. Moore (R) elected 1942; Robert S. Kerr (D) elected 1948 (died 1963); J. Howard Edmondson (D) appointed 1-6-63 to fill office until General Election, 1964; Fred R. Harris (D) elected 1964 (for unexpired 2-year term) elected full term 1966; Dewey F. Bartlett (R) elected 1972; David Boren (D) elected 1978. u.S. Representatives: District 1-Bird S. McGuire (R) elected 1907; James S. Davenport (D) elected 1914; T. A. Chandler (R) elected 1916; E. B. Howard (D) elected 1918; T. A. Chandler (R) elected 1920; E. B. Howard (D) elected 1922; S. J. Montgomery (R) elected 1924; E. B. Howard (D) elected 1926; Charles O'Connor (R) elected 1928; Wesley E. Disney (D) elected 1930; George R. Schwabe (R) elected 1944; Dixie Gilmer (D) elected 1948; George R. Schwabe (R) elected 1950; Page Belcher (R) elected 1952; James R. Jones (D) elected 1972. District 2 - Elmer L. Fulton (D) elected 1907; Dick T. Morgan (R) elected 1908; W. W. Hastings (D) elected 1914; Alice M. Robertson (R) elected 1920; W. W. Hastings (D) elected 1922; Jack Nichols (D) elected 1934 and resigned 1944; W. G. Stigler (D) elected 3-8-44 to fill unexpired term and elected full term 1944; Ed Edmondson (D) elected 1952; Clem Rogers McSpadden (D) elected 1972; Theodore M. -
Ally, the Okla- Homa Story, (University of Oklahoma Press 1978), and Oklahoma: a History of Five Centuries (University of Oklahoma Press 1989)
Oklahoma History 750 The following information was excerpted from the work of Arrell Morgan Gibson, specifically, The Okla- homa Story, (University of Oklahoma Press 1978), and Oklahoma: A History of Five Centuries (University of Oklahoma Press 1989). Oklahoma: A History of the Sooner State (University of Oklahoma Press 1964) by Edwin C. McReynolds was also used, along with Muriel Wright’s A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma (University of Oklahoma Press 1951), and Don G. Wyckoff’s Oklahoma Archeology: A 1981 Perspective (Uni- versity of Oklahoma, Archeological Survey 1981). • Additional information was provided by Jenk Jones Jr., Tulsa • David Hampton, Tulsa • Office of Archives and Records, Oklahoma Department of Librar- ies • Oklahoma Historical Society. Guide to Oklahoma Museums by David C. Hunt (University of Oklahoma Press, 1981) was used as a reference. 751 A Brief History of Oklahoma The Prehistoric Age Substantial evidence exists to demonstrate the first people were in Oklahoma approximately 11,000 years ago and more than 550 generations of Native Americans have lived here. More than 10,000 prehistoric sites are recorded for the state, and they are estimated to represent about 10 percent of the actual number, according to archaeologist Don G. Wyckoff. Some of these sites pertain to the lives of Oklahoma’s original settlers—the Wichita and Caddo, and perhaps such relative latecomers as the Kiowa Apache, Osage, Kiowa, and Comanche. All of these sites comprise an invaluable resource for learning about Oklahoma’s remarkable and diverse The Clovis people lived Native American heritage. in Oklahoma at the Given the distribution and ages of studies sites, Okla- homa was widely inhabited during prehistory. -
Fall/Winter 2016 MARYLAND Historical Magazine Maryland Blood: an American Family in War and Peace, the Hambletons 1657 to the Present
Fall/Winter 2016 MARYLAND Historical Magazine Maryland Blood: An American Family in War and Peace, the Hambletons 1657 to the Present Martha Frick Symington Sanger At the dawn of the seventeenth century, immigrants to this country arrived with dreams of conquering a new frontier. Families were willing to embrace a life of strife and hardship but with great hopes of achieving prominence and wealth. Such is the case with the Hambleton family. From William Hambleton’s arrival on the Eastern Shore in 1657 and through every major confict on land, sea, and air since, a member of the Hambleton clan has par- ticipated and made a lasting contribution to this nation. Teir achievements are not only in war but in civic leadership as well. Among its members are bankers, business leaders, government ofcials, and visionaries. Not only is the Hambleton family extraordinary by American standards, it is also re- markable in that their base for four centuries has been and continues to be Maryland. Te blood of the Hambletons is also the blood of Maryland, a rich land stretching from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to the tidal basins of the mighty Chesapeake to the mountains of the west, a poetic framework that illuminates one truly American family that continues its legacy of building new genera- tions of strong Americans. Martha Frick Symington Sanger is an eleventh-gen- eration descendant of pioneer William Hambleton and a great-granddaughter of Henry Clay Frick. She is the author of Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait, Te Henry Clay Frick Houses, and Helen Clay Frick: Bitter- sweet Heiress. -
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Stoppard, Tom Title: Tom Stoppard Papers 1939-2000 (bulk 1970-2000) Dates: 1939-2000 (bulk 1970-2000) Extent: 149 document cases, 9 oversize boxes, 9 oversize folders, 10 galley folders (62 linear feet) Abstract: The papers of this British playwright consist of typescript and handwritten drafts, revision pages, outlines, and notes; production material, including cast lists, set drawings, schedules, and photographs; theatre programs; posters; advertisements; clippings; page and galley proofs; dust jackets; correspondence; legal documents and financial papers, including passports, contracts, and royalty and account statements; itineraries; appointment books and diary sheets; photographs; sheet music; sound recordings; a scrapbook; artwork; minutes of meetings; and publications. Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-4062 Language English Access Open for research Administrative Information Acquisition Purchases and gifts, 1991-2000 Processed by Katherine Mosley, 1993-2000 Repository: Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin Stoppard, Tom Manuscript Collection MS-4062 Biographical Sketch Playwright Tom Stoppard was born Tomas Straussler in Zlin, Czechoslovakia, on July 3, 1937. However, he lived in Czechoslovakia only until 1939, when his family moved to Singapore. Stoppard, his mother, and his older brother were evacuated to India shortly before the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1941; his father, Eugene Straussler, remained behind and was killed. In 1946, Stoppard's mother, Martha, married British army officer Kenneth Stoppard and the family moved to England, eventually settling in Bristol. Stoppard left school at the age of seventeen and began working as a journalist, first with the Western Daily Press (1954-58) and then with the Bristol Evening World (1958-60). -
19-04-HR Haldeman Political File
Richard Nixon Presidential Library Contested Materials Collection Folder List Box Number Folder Number Document Date No Date Subject Document Type Document Description 19 4 Campaign Other Document From: Harry S. Dent RE: Profiles on each state regarding the primary results for elections. 71 pgs. Monday, March 21, 2011 Page 1 of 1 - Democratic Primary - May 5 111E Y~'ilIIE HUUSE GOP Convention - July 17 Primary Results -- --~ -~ ------- NAME party anncd fiJ cd bi.lc!<ground GOVERNORIS RACE George Wallace D 2/26 x beat inc Albert Brewer in runoff former Gov.; 68 PRES cando A. C. Shelton IND 6/6 former St. Sen. Dr. Peter Ca:;;hin NDPA endorsed by the Negro Democratic party in Aiabama NO SENATE RACE CONGRESSIONAL 1st - Jack Edwards INC R x x B. H. Mathis D x x 2nd - B ill Dickenson INC R x x A Ibert Winfield D x x 3rd -G eorge Andrews INC D x x 4th - Bi11 Nichols INC D x x . G len Andrews R 5th -W alter Flowers INC D x x 6th - John Buchanan INC R x x Jack Schmarkey D x x defeated T ito Howard in primary 7th - To m Bevill INC D x x defeated M rs. Frank Stewart in prim 8th - Bob Jones INC D x x ALASKA Filing Date - June 1 Primary - August 25 Primary Re sults NAME party anned filed bacl,ground GOVERNOR1S RACE Keith Miller INC R 4/22 appt to fill Hickel term William Egan D former . Governor SENATE RACE Theodore Stevens INC R 3/21 appt to fill Bartlett term St. -
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EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1957, TO JANUARY 3, 1959 FIRST SESSION—January 3, 1957, to August 30, 1957 SECOND SESSION—January 7, 1958, 1 to August 24, 1958 VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES—RICHARD M. NIXON, of California PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE—CARL HAYDEN, 2 of Arizona SECRETARY OF THE SENATE—FELTON MCLELLAN JOHNSTON, 3 of Mississippi SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATE—JOSEPH C. DUKE, 3 of Arizona SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—SAM RAYBURN, 3 of Texas CLERK OF THE HOUSE—RALPH R. ROBERTS, 3 of Indiana SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSE—ZEAKE W. JOHNSON, JR., 3 of Tennessee DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSE—WILLIAM M. MILLER, 3 of Mississippi POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSE—H. H. MORRIS, 3 of Kentucky ALABAMA J. William Fulbright, Fayetteville Donald L. Jackson, Pacific REPRESENTATIVES Palisades SENATORS E. C. Gathings, West Memphis Cecil R. King, Los Angeles Lister Hill, Montgomery Craig Hosmer, Long Beach John J. Sparkman, Huntsville Wilbur D. Mills, Kensett James W. Trimble, Berryville Chet Holifield, Montebello REPRESENTATIVES Oren Harris, El Dorado H. Allen Smith, Glendale Frank W. Boykin, Mobile Brooks Hays, Little Rock Edgar W. Hiestand, Altadena George M. Grant, Troy W. F. Norrell, Monticello Joe Holt, Van Nuys George W. Andrews, Union Springs Clyde Doyle, South Gate Kenneth A. Roberts, Anniston CALIFORNIA Glenard P. Lipscomb, Los Angeles Albert Rains, Gadsden SENATORS Patrick J. Hillings, Arcadia Armistead I. Selden, Jr., William F. Knowland, Piedmont James Roosevelt, Los Angeles Greensboro Thomas H. Kuchel, Anaheim Harry R. Sheppard, Yucaipa Carl Elliott, Jasper REPRESENTATIVES James B. Utt, Santa Ana D.