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Samuel Gompers letter to Warren G. Harding, February 7, 1921
No full textIn this letter dated February 7, 1921, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), writes to President-elect Warren G. Harding with thoughts on his secretary of labor, and provides a brief history of the Department of Labor from its inception to the Wilson administration, citing its purpose to "foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners and of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment." According to Gompers, the secretary of labor should be a loyal citizen and have experience and contact with ordinary working people.
This letter is part of the Warren G. Harding Papers (MSS 345). This collection includes correspondence, business records, and other materials documenting Harding’s business career as owner and editor-in-chief of The Daily Marion Star, as well as the various stages of his political career. A significant portion of the collection, and what’s available on Ohio Memory, highlights his 1920 presidential campaign, spanning just before publicly announcing his candidacy to handily defeating Ohio Governor James M. Cox in the election. Correspondents include both Ohio and national businessmen, political figures, and ordinary citizens writing with questions, support, congratulatory notes, and campaign advice. Some of the most interesting insights into the tumultuous political climate in the U.S., the extreme factionalism within the Republican Party in Ohio, and Harding’s campaign strategies are described in letters between Harding and his campaign manager, Harry M. Daugherty. Some of the topics addressed include women’s suffrage, Prohibition, the League of Nations, African American representation and issues, and lingering peace negotiations following World War I
Warren G. Harding letter to Joseph C. Manning, February 26, 1920
No full textIn this letter dated February 26, 1920, Senator Warren G. Harding writes to Joseph C. Manning in response to his letters of February 21 and 23. After apologizing for his delayed response, Harding speaks to Manning's information regarding labor activist Samuel Gompers and his fellow American Federation of Labor (AFL) colleagues speaking out against Harding and campaigning against his presidential campaign. Samuel Gompers lead the labor union movement in the United States from the mid 1880s until his death in 1924. He fought for higher wages, better working conditions, shorter working hours, benefits, and more.
This letter is part of the Warren G. Harding Papers (MSS 345). This collection includes correspondence, business records, and other materials documenting Harding’s business career as owner and editor-in-chief of The Daily Marion Star, as well as the various stages of his political career. A significant portion of the collection, and what’s available on Ohio Memory, highlights his 1920 presidential campaign, spanning just before publicly announcing his candidacy to handily defeating Ohio Governor James M. Cox in the election. Correspondents include both Ohio and national businessmen, political figures, and ordinary citizens writing with questions, support, congratulatory notes, and campaign advice. Some of the most interesting insights into the tumultuous political climate in the U.S., the extreme factionalism within the Republican Party in Ohio, and Harding’s campaign strategies are described in letters between Harding and his campaign manager, Harry M. Daugherty. Some of the topics addressed include women’s suffrage, Prohibition, the League of Nations, African American representation and issues, and lingering peace negotiations following World War I
Joseph C. Manning letter to Warren G. Harding, February 23, 1920
No full textIn this letter dated February 23, 1920, Joseph C. Manning writes to Senator Warren G. Harding regarding American Federation of Labor founder Samuel Gompers, who has "blacklisted" Harding. Manning argues that the real crime against the working man is the high cost of living, and not the issues raised by Gompers and the Federation.
This letter is part of the Warren G. Harding Papers (MSS 345). This collection includes correspondence, business records, and other materials documenting Harding’s business career as owner and editor-in-chief of The Daily Marion Star, as well as the various stages of his political career. A significant portion of the collection, and what’s available on Ohio Memory, highlights his 1920 presidential campaign, spanning just before publicly announcing his candidacy to handily defeating Ohio Governor James M. Cox in the election. Correspondents include both Ohio and national businessmen, political figures, and ordinary citizens writing with questions, support, congratulatory notes, and campaign advice. Some of the most interesting insights into the tumultuous political climate in the U.S., the extreme factionalism within the Republican Party in Ohio, and Harding’s campaign strategies are described in letters between Harding and his campaign manager, Harry M. Daugherty. Some of the topics addressed include women’s suffrage, Prohibition, the League of Nations, African American representation and issues, and lingering peace negotiations following World War I
George D. Dugan letter to Warren G. Harding, March 6, 1920
No full textIn this letter dated March 6, 1920, George D. Dugan, an attorney in Cambridge, Ohio, writes to Senator Warren G. Harding regarding the political situation in Guernsey County, Ohio. Dugan is concerned about General Leonard Wood's supporters there, and his chosen delegate Captain Samuel A. Craig. He claims that Harding supporters in his area of the state are not well organized, and believes a Republican organization committed to see an Ohioan as the Party's nominee should organize there, as to not leave Guernsey County behind. He mentions miners supporting General Wood and the presence of the Bull Moose Party, or Progressive Party. He criticizes the management methods of Frank Ransbottom, a Republican political manager of his district, which is the impetus of his letter to Harding.
This letter is part of the Warren G. Harding Papers (MSS 345). This collection includes correspondence, business records, and other materials documenting Harding’s business career as owner and editor-in-chief of The Daily Marion Star, as well as the various stages of his political career. A significant portion of the collection, and what’s available on Ohio Memory, highlights his 1920 presidential campaign, spanning just before publicly announcing his candidacy to handily defeating Ohio Governor James M. Cox in the election. Correspondents include both Ohio and national businessmen, political figures, and ordinary citizens writing with questions, support, congratulatory notes, and campaign advice. Some of the most interesting insights into the tumultuous political climate in the U.S., the extreme factionalism within the Republican Party in Ohio, and Harding’s campaign strategies are described in letters between Harding and his campaign manager, Harry M. Daugherty. Some of the topics addressed include women’s suffrage, Prohibition, the League of Nations, African American representation and issues, and lingering peace negotiations following World War I
Henry W. Elliot memorandum for Warren G. Harding, May 1, 1920
No full textThis memorandum from Henry W. Elliot of Lakewood, Ohio, for Senator Warren G. Harding, was written on May 1, 1920, and concerns the April 27, 1920, primary election in Lakewood. Elliot writes that many of the workers at the National Carbon Company plant in Lakewood are recent immigrants, notably from Poland and the Czech Republic, and they dominantly voted for General Leonard Wood in the primary election. As these workers are union laborers, Elliot largely attributes their support for Wood to union labor advocate Samuel Gompers and his circular urging union workers to vote against Harding. The memorandum also includes a newspaper clipping from the April 18 issue of The Washington Herald showing Wood's horoscope, and another of the same issue regarding Senator Hiram Johnson's gains against Wood in the presidential race.
This letter is part of the Warren G. Harding Papers (MSS 345). This collection includes correspondence, business records, and other materials documenting Harding’s business career as owner and editor-in-chief of The Daily Marion Star, as well as the various stages of his political career. A significant portion of the collection, and what’s available on Ohio Memory, highlights his 1920 presidential campaign, spanning just before publicly announcing his candidacy to handily defeating Ohio Governor James M. Cox in the election. Correspondents include both Ohio and national businessmen, political figures, and ordinary citizens writing with questions, support, congratulatory notes, and campaign advice. Some of the most interesting insights into the tumultuous political climate in the U.S., the extreme factionalism within the Republican Party in Ohio, and Harding’s campaign strategies are described in letters between Harding and his campaign manager, Harry M. Daugherty. Some of the topics addressed include women’s suffrage, Prohibition, the League of Nations, African American representation and issues, and lingering peace negotiations following World War I
Warren G. Harding and labor supporters press release, September 5, 1920
No full textPrepared for publication on September 5, 1920, this press release discusses two organized labor movement supporters who have pledged their vote to Warren G. Harding in the upcoming presidential election; William J. Burke and Daniel Winters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Burke, now a Congressman-at-large, previously worked as a railway conductor and is General Chairman of the Order of Railway Conductors for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and an active member of other railway workers organizations. Winters has been associated with the American Federation of Labor, and Samuel Gompers, but notes that they have different political views and argues that the working class thrives most under Republican led government.
This document is part of the Warren G. Harding Papers (MSS 345). This collection includes correspondence, business records, and other materials documenting Harding’s business career as owner and editor-in-chief of The Daily Marion Star, as well as the various stages of his political career. A significant portion of the collection, and what’s available on Ohio Memory, highlights his 1920 presidential campaign, spanning just before publicly announcing his candidacy to handily defeating Ohio Governor James M. Cox in the election. Correspondents include both Ohio and national businessmen, political figures, and ordinary citizens writing with questions, support, congratulatory notes, and campaign advice. Some of the most interesting insights into the tumultuous political climate in the U.S., the extreme factionalism within the Republican Party in Ohio, and Harding’s campaign strategies are described in letters between Harding and his campaign manager, Harry M. Daugherty. Some of the topics addressed include women’s suffrage, Prohibition, the League of Nations, African American representation and issues, and lingering peace negotiations following World War I
Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
No full textThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
Samuel R. McKelvie and R. Livingston Beeckman statements, September 1, 1920
No full textFor publication in newspapers on September 1, 1920, this document contains statements given by Nebraska Governor Samuel R. McKelvie and Rhode Island Governor Robert Livingston Beeckman supporting Warren G. Harding's presidential campaign. Both governors boast that each of their states are voting Republican in the upcoming election.
This document is part of the Warren G. Harding Papers (MSS 345). This collection includes correspondence, business records, and other materials documenting Harding’s business career as owner and editor-in-chief of The Daily Marion Star, as well as the various stages of his political career. A significant portion of the collection, and what’s available on Ohio Memory, highlights his 1920 presidential campaign, spanning just before publicly announcing his candidacy to handily defeating Ohio Governor James M. Cox in the election. Correspondents include both Ohio and national businessmen, political figures, and ordinary citizens writing with questions, support, congratulatory notes, and campaign advice. Some of the most interesting insights into the tumultuous political climate in the U.S., the extreme factionalism within the Republican Party in Ohio, and Harding’s campaign strategies are described in letters between Harding and his campaign manager, Harry M. Daugherty. Some of the topics addressed include women’s suffrage, Prohibition, the League of Nations, African American representation and issues, and lingering peace negotiations following World War I
'Dick' Powers and labor press release, September 7, 1920
No full textPrepared for publication on September 7, 1920, this press release contains the thoughts of "Dick" Powers, also known as "the old sailor," a leader of the Knights of Columbus, who supports Warren G. Harding's presidential campaign. Powers discusses American Federation of Labor Founder Samuel Gompers and his history of working to advance the Democratic Party, even running for public office himself, and his support of Bolshevism. He criticizes Gompers for not organizing in the south, where children and women work long hours and anti-unionizing legislation prevents reform.
This document is part of the Warren G. Harding Papers (MSS 345). This collection includes correspondence, business records, and other materials documenting Harding’s business career as owner and editor-in-chief of The Daily Marion Star, as well as the various stages of his political career. A significant portion of the collection, and what’s available on Ohio Memory, highlights his 1920 presidential campaign, spanning just before publicly announcing his candidacy to handily defeating Ohio Governor James M. Cox in the election. Correspondents include both Ohio and national businessmen, political figures, and ordinary citizens writing with questions, support, congratulatory notes, and campaign advice. Some of the most interesting insights into the tumultuous political climate in the U.S., the extreme factionalism within the Republican Party in Ohio, and Harding’s campaign strategies are described in letters between Harding and his campaign manager, Harry M. Daugherty. Some of the topics addressed include women’s suffrage, Prohibition, the League of Nations, African American representation and issues, and lingering peace negotiations following World War I
Samuel Beckett and the Writers of Port-Royal
No full textIt has been observed that ‘the literary influences on Beckett have been far more important than has been acknowledged, and more important indeed, than the philosophical influences’ (Smith 2002: 3). The truth of this statement is evidenced by the description that scholars have given of Samuel Beckett’s relationship to seventeenth century French classicism. To date, critical interest has been limited for the most part to the figure of the philosopher René Descartes on the (fragile) grounds that Beckett was exclusively concerned with the Cartesian imperative of clarity and order, the fundamental dualism between body and mind, and Nominalism.
Together with the assumption that Beckett’s vision was essentially Cartesian, his literary filiation with Pascal was suggested by critics, but only in terms of Beckett’s formal approach to the theatre. In his short article on En attendant Godot in 1953, the playwright Jean Anouilh was among the first reviewers to suggest that Beckett’s drama synthesizes the encounter between ‘classicism’ and a ‘modern’ form of art. It is well known that Beckett retained a lifelong admiration for Pascal – indeed, Pascal was one of his ‘old chestnuts’ (Knowlson 1997: 653). Little attention has been paid, however, to the originality of Pascal’s thought, the specific nature of his prose, and the impact these might have had upon Beckett’s mature work, especially the trilogy and the subsequent short prose. Yet, in the literary and philosophical context of post-war France, Beckett’s filiation with Pascal, their corresponding preoccupations, were evident to his contemporaries, who identified Pascal as an underlying presence in his works
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