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Analysis of Certain Wealth in Texas to Determine Possible Sources of Taxation for Educational Purposes (open access)

Analysis of Certain Wealth in Texas to Determine Possible Sources of Taxation for Educational Purposes

This study revelaed that the rank of Texas with other state in the United States in the expenditure for schools per pupil is thrty-fifth. It further discussed that there are possible sources of taxation in the properties. However, there is a wide variation that needs to be studied. It further justify that present administrative and legislative trends in searching for new source of taxation makes the problem an important one.
Date: August 1937
Creator: Hedgpeth, Armo T.
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
Teacher Tenure (open access)

Teacher Tenure

This study examines teacher tenure and the effect it has on education, children, and the public in order to determine whether or not legislation is needed.
Date: August 1938
Creator: White, W. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Aid to Education (open access)

Federal Aid to Education

This thesis measures the degree to which the Federal Government has assisted formal education for children in the united States.
Date: August 1938
Creator: Wood, Andrew J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Certification of Teachers in Texas (open access)

The Certification of Teachers in Texas

This study examines the developmental history of teacher's certifications in Texas as a means to highlight needed improvements.
Date: August 1939
Creator: Lowe, Frank, Jr.
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
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
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
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
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
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
An Analysis of the Political Career of Carl Schurz, 1868-1888 (open access)

An Analysis of the Political Career of Carl Schurz, 1868-1888

Carl Schurz, appearing on the American political stage during a period of great change, felt the influence of human events as he formulated his political thinking. He also was affected by his German birth, education, and revolutionary activity before his immigration to the United States. Indeed, it appears that much of his political thought was reaction to existing circumstances or events rather than pure contemplative thinking.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Palmer, Edwin D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Government and the Housing of the Indigent Aged of Dallas--Possibilities and Actualities (open access)

Government and the Housing of the Indigent Aged of Dallas--Possibilities and Actualities

National aid, transmitted and modified by the state and supplemented by the community, is only beginning to be specifically applied to the housing needs of the indigent aged. It is to the question of government's role in the housing of this element of the population that this study is addressed.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Smith, Stephen Neil
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Political Theories of José Ortega y Gasset (open access)

The Political Theories of José Ortega y Gasset

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the complete writings of Ortega, bringing together the recurring themes in his works as they relate to politics and political theory, and describing them in systematic form.
Date: August 1962
Creator: Thomas, William Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fourth Freedom (open access)

Fourth Freedom

It is the purpose of this paper to show that the Post Office must be a service and not a business. It will be shown that the Post Office Department is gradually changing from a service to a business.
Date: June 1963
Creator: Luce, Joe Patterson
System: The UNT Digital Library