An Analysis of Certain Aspects of International Narcotics Law Enforcement 1949-1959 (open access)

An Analysis of Certain Aspects of International Narcotics Law Enforcement 1949-1959

This thesis is an analysis of aspects of international narcotics law enforcement from 1949-1959.
Date: August 1960
Creator: Dickson, James Galen
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Effectiveness of Citizenship Education as it is Taught in the Public Secondary Schools of Texas (open access)

A Study of the Effectiveness of Citizenship Education as it is Taught in the Public Secondary Schools of Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine whether students in Texas high schools are receiving adequate citizenship education, to see what factors are responsible for the present situation, and finally to search for possible improvements in civic education and possible solutions for specific problems.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Gale, Patricia Harberson
System: The UNT Digital Library
Self-incrimination :  An Historical Interpretation (open access)

Self-incrimination : An Historical Interpretation

This paper is an attempt to present the history of the so-called "self-incrimination clause" of the Fifth Amendment from the time the idea was first conceived in the mind of man to the present day. It is an attempt to present the ideas of both legal and lay thinkers concerning this clause.
Date: 1956
Creator: Myres, Charles Ernest
System: The UNT Digital Library
Racial Residential Restrictions and the Fourteenth Amendment (open access)

Racial Residential Restrictions and the Fourteenth Amendment

Although this study will be concerned primarily with the Negro and legal issues involved in efforts to discriminate against the Negro race, a careful study of racial residential segregation will reveal that the imposed restrictions may be based on religion, nationality, or race.
Date: 1956
Creator: Odom, Luther Wayne
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Family-size Farm and Agricultural Price Supports (open access)

The Family-size Farm and Agricultural Price Supports

This thesis is a study of the family farm, the authority of government as it relates to agriculture, the background of agriculture price support programs, agriculture price supports, the effects of agriculture price support, subsidy payments by the United States government, and the present trends.
Date: 1956
Creator: Ayres, Ray
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Government's Loyalty and Security Programs (open access)

A Study of the Government's Loyalty and Security Programs

The purpose of this study is to show just how a loyalty or security program may affect the government employee or armed service personnel as individuals and as a unit of a department.
Date: 1953
Creator: Johnagin, L. A
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Trend Away from the Traditional Democratic Party in Texas Presidential Elections, 1932-1948 (open access)

An Analysis of the Trend Away from the Traditional Democratic Party in Texas Presidential Elections, 1932-1948

The purpose of this paper will be to look into the election returns to find some of the factors which have caused the trend of voters shifting away from the Democratic party towards the Republican party in presidential elections.
Date: 1951
Creator: Barnebey, Malcolm Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Systematic Exclusion of Negroes from Jury Service (open access)

The Systematic Exclusion of Negroes from Jury Service

It is the purpose of this paper to present the historical record of Negro service on grand and petit juries in the United States, as that record is revealed by decisions of both state and federal courts; particularly the decisions of the United States Supreme Court. It is the desire of this treatise that such record shall be presented fairly. Finally, it is the aim of this document to present this historical record of cases in such a manner as to allow the prediction of certain potential developments visible in the course of justice. This then is a presentation of the record of the systematic exclusion of the Negro race in the matter of service on grand and petit juries in the United States, and with especial attention to the State of Texas.
Date: 1951
Creator: Cogdill, John L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Nature and Scope of the Treaty-Making Power (open access)

The Nature and Scope of the Treaty-Making Power

It is the purpose of this study to determine the scope of the powers of the national government in view of the existence of the treaty-making power. The primary objective is to determine what strength the internal prohibitions of the Constitution against action by the national government have in the face of the external powers recognized to exist by International Law and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Date: 1951
Creator: Foshee, Donald A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Religious Freedom of Jehovah's Witnesses (open access)

Religious Freedom of Jehovah's Witnesses

The author has tried to show in this study the broad applications laid down by the Supreme Court in its decisions dealing with Jehovah's Witnesses. The tolerance used by the Supreme Court in working out the immense problems created by this sect at such a critical period, shows how tolerance builds strength rather than lessens it.
Date: 1951
Creator: Meadows, E. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Audio-Visual Aids and the Teaching of Texas State Government (open access)

Audio-Visual Aids and the Teaching of Texas State Government

Audio-visual aids can help to cause the student to realize that "government" is an animate, ever-changing thing that affects him in many ways. The purpose of this paper is to suggest ways in which government courses may be given life.
Date: 1948
Creator: Baker, Riley Ellis
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legal Principles and Practices in the Consolidation of School Districts in Texas (open access)

Legal Principles and Practices in the Consolidation of School Districts in Texas

The writer in this study seeks to do two things: (1) to make clear the fundamental principles underlying the relation of the state and the local school officials to the school district in regard to school district consolidation, and (2) to reduce to a systematic organization the principles derived from cases which are applicable to this problem of consolidation of school districts.
Date: 1950
Creator: Howell, Hewell Howard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Professionalism in Teacher Unionism (open access)

Professionalism in Teacher Unionism

The purpose of this study is to point out the accomplishments and various benefits gained through teacher cooperation, with special emphasis placed upon the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.
Date: 1949
Creator: Baker, Robert Buckner
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wartime Wage Stabilization (open access)

Wartime Wage Stabilization

This thesis examines the wartime wage stabilization program in detail, and how it may help with controlling inflation in general.
Date: 1948
Creator: Whitaker, Ruth Nell
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the House Un-American Activities Committee with Conclusions and Recommendations as to its Future Value (open access)

An Evaluation of the House Un-American Activities Committee with Conclusions and Recommendations as to its Future Value

The purpose of this study is a critical examination of this Committee with emphasis on its methods, procedure, and worth.
Date: 1948
Creator: Boyd, Will C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Liability of Texas Municipalities Under Torts For Construction, Maintenance and Repair of Streets and Sidewalks (open access)

Liability of Texas Municipalities Under Torts For Construction, Maintenance and Repair of Streets and Sidewalks

The purpose of this study is to make a survey of the liability of municipal corporations in Texas for the construction, repair, and maintenance of their streets and sidewalks, and for injuries sustained by the traveling public through defects in same.
Date: 1942
Creator: Waits, Edwin Bill
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Position-Classification Plan in the Public Service Contrasted with Position-Classification in a State Institution of Higher Learning (open access)

A Position-Classification Plan in the Public Service Contrasted with Position-Classification in a State Institution of Higher Learning

This thesis discusses the similarities and differences between position classifications in public service and a state institution of higher learning.
Date: 1946
Creator: Crow, Herman L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education on America's Last Frontier (Alaska) (open access)

Education on America's Last Frontier (Alaska)

This thesis covers the history of education in Alaska, the federal school system, the territorial school system, the University of Alaska, Alaska's teachers, and the future of Alaskan education.
Date: 1942
Creator: Garner, Martha Marie Gough
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Defense Training Programs of the Federal Security Agency in Texas (open access)

National Defense Training Programs of the Federal Security Agency in Texas

It is the purpose of this thesis to give the reader a picture of the labor shortage hampering the Defense Production Program, to describe the structure and development of the corporate plan for the National Defense Training Programs conducted by the Federal Security Agency for Texas, to evaluate the effectiveness of this plan, and, in conclusion, to point out such developments as might possibly effect our general educational systems.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hitt, Harold H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tendencies Away from Democracy (open access)

Tendencies Away from Democracy

It is the intention of the author to arrive at a definition of democracy based upon governmental principles which are refutable by none, although further discussion in the light of this definition may not be accepted by all. In addition, it is the objective of the author to make a study of deviations from the Constitution, as shown by certain acts of the agents of government, as well as dangers to our democracy that exist due to certain attitudes and practices of the people.
Date: 1947
Creator: Griffin, Ernest R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Operation of Title I of the Federal Housing Administration Act (open access)

An Analysis of the Operation of Title I of the Federal Housing Administration Act

The writer proposes in this study to set forth, in brief, the functions of lending institutions in financing home building and home improvements under the plan of loans offered by the Federal Housing Administration.
Date: 1947
Creator: Granstaff, Shelie Monroe
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Legal Authority and Limitations of Teachers Contracts (open access)

The Legal Authority and Limitations of Teachers Contracts

The purpose of this study is to determine the nature and characteristics of the contractual relathionship between boards of education and public school teachers. The purpose is also to determine by analysis of a group of contract forms the nature of the stipulations found in the average contract.
Date: August 1938
Creator: Bryant, Alton Morris
System: The UNT Digital Library