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  The cross in the valley ; the history of the establishment of the Catholic church in the Northern San Joaquin Valley of California up to 1863

  Robert Eugene Bonta

  This thesis is the story of the development of the Catholic Church in San Joaquin County and the adjacent areas that were served by the pioneer clergymen of Stockton 1 s St. Mary's Church from approximately 1851 to 186). These first dozen years of Central California Catholicism cover the pastorates of Stockton's first four priests: Fathers Dominic Blaive, Cornelius Delahunty, Robert Maurice, and Joseph Gallagher. These dozen years mark the transition of Stockton from a hectic supply center for the Southern Mines to a stable community whose economy became, based upon the agricultural production of its surrounding rural areas. These first four pastors, then, witnessed the development of the early American Catholic Church from its infancy as a mission when Abbe Blaive arrived in Stockton from his native France, to its maturity as a stable.and respected community church under the spiritual direction of the American, Father Joseph Gallagher.

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  A history of the flood problem in the Marysville-Yuba City area, with special reference to the Great Flood of 1955

  David Karl Dunlop

  The water problem in the Sacramento Valley, prior to it occupation by the white race, is impossible to ascertain. The Indians, however, have a tradition of a great flood sometime in the early part of the nineteenth century, which inundated the whole valley and in which a great many lives were lost and villages destroyed. It forms an era in their calendar from which they date events. Again a great flood in the winter of 1825-26 is mentioned, through an Indian named Peter. He used to say that the trapping party he was with was compelled to camp in the Buttes on account of high water, and that those hills were full of grizzlies, elk, antelope, and smaller game that had taken refuge there.

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  The Atkinson Bill of 1939 : a study of an oil conservation and control act

  George Marshall Serlin

  It was the purpose of this study (1) to investigate the circumstances that seemed to warrant this le6islati on; (2) to study the important aspects of the bill itself; (3) to follow the bill through its heated political battle prior to its legislative passage; (4) to trace the factors that led to its defeat as a referendum measure; (5) to grasp the significance of defeat to Governor Olson; and (6) to determine the merits of the measure in relationship to conservation and production.

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  Navigation on the San Joaquin River, 1848-1925

  John Wynn Birtwhistle

  This thesis is a history of the navigation on the San Joaquin River from 1848 until 1925. The main purpose of the thesis will be to examine chronologically any and all events and factors concerned with the navigation of the river during that period of time. The first chapter will survey the geographical and historical background of the San Joaquin River.

  The emphasis will be placed on the river's use for navigation. Since the upper, southern third of the San Joaquin Valley does not drain into the San Joaquin River, only those areas between the Kings River on the south and the Cosumnes River on the north will be included in this study.

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  A history of the public schools of Stockton, California

  Charles Dennis Bloch

  This study should, in a small way, add an important chapter in the total local historical record, and be of particular value to the Stockton Unified School District. It is to be hoped that the following study will give proper credit to the early achievements of the schools, and give a chronology of school progress. This paper also points to the shortcomings and failures of the local schools, since there are also a part of the record.

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  A historical study of the woman suffrage movement in California, 1910-1911

  Audrey Mackey Johnson

  The years before 1910 are filled with accounts of the gains made for woman suffrage in various parts of the United States as well as in countries overseas. There is evidence of agitation in Mexico, England, Ireland, and even in China. The California movement for woman suffrage was an important part of a world-wide movement.

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  The City of Great Peace : an historical study of Stockton's rural cemetery

  Delmar Martin McComb Jr.

  One hundred years may or may not seem a long time. To the geologist, one hundred years is but a moment. To the historian it may represent a convenient yardstick to measure events or empires. To the average individual, one hundred years may seem a short time when history tells us that old world civilization was brought to the shores of California in 1542 by Cabrillo, and the first Franciscan mission was established in 1769. One hundred years is a long time When it includes such a period of phenomenal events as mankind has experienced in the past ten decades. Certainly the course of California since the discovery of gold in 1848 or the gold rush of 1849 has undergone unparalleled change. Practically no region of the State has escaped alteration in some form, including Central California and the City of Stockton.

  It is intended to present one small aspect of that total picture of Central California's and the City of Stockton's past one hundred years. Historians employ all manner of tools to aid them in their quest for truth. Records, diaries, letters, photographs, even garbage dumps serve as instruments for exploring antique lands, cultures, and events. There i no better instrument for understanding the past than a traditional cemetery with well maintained grounds and records. Central California and the City of Stockton are fortunate to have such a cemetery serving the community today as it has for the past one hundred years.

  A consideration of Rural Cemetery's past one hundred years is more than a chronicle or burials and maintenance problems. It is a source for better understanding the community's history, growth, and citizens. It is not intended to present the entire story of the Stockton region since the "days of '49." By delving into the history of the Rural Cemetery, this writing will present part or that interesting story. Through this approach, the history of' a cemetery and its community will unfold.

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  The interrelationship between the gold mining period in Sierra County, California and the development of the Sierra County lumber industry

  Nathan Longfellow White

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  The Hungarian Uprising of 1956

  John Leroy Aaland

  This thesis will have four main objectives. (1) A descriptive and logical summary of the events leading up to the Hungarian uprising, and of the uprising itself, will be given. (2) The aftermath of the revolution will be examined. (3) Relations between Hungary and the Western world will be explored, and the question will be raised as to whether the West could have done more to help Hungary to gain her freedom. (4) An attempt will be made to answer the question of why Russia intervened in Hungary, while not intervening in Poland.

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  A historical study of Saint Anne's Catholic Church in Columbia, California

  Leroy John Carney

  The purpose of this paper is to attempt to write a complete history of Saint Anne's Church in Columbia, California. Since Saint Anne's Church was the second Catholic Church in Columbia, the writer has felt it necessary to also include information regarding the first church.

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  Religion as a factor in the defeat of Alfred E. Smith in the election of 1928

  Ronald Eugene Isetti

  The growing patriotism of the Catholic population, the Church's vigorous support of the “Social Gospel,” and the accommodation of Catholics to American democratic institutions -- all of these factors helped to make the Church of Rome more acceptable to the majority of Americans. Nonetheless, there was still a considerable amount of latent anti-Catholic feeling in the country, especially in the South. Therefore, when Alfred E. Smith, a Catholic, became the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928, animosity towards the Catholic Church, which hitherto had been submerged, came to the surface during the campaign.

  Some people, especially Catholics, went so far as to maintain that it was religious prejudice that cost Smith the election. The purpose of this essay will be to determine the veracity or falsity of this interpretation of the cause of Smith’s defeat in the election of 1928, in the hope that a careful representation of the past will enable us to understand the living present and to predict the uncertain future.

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  African nationalism in Tanganyika

  Amon James Nsekela

  Tanganyika’s astonishing constitutional progress, achieved almost without friction, he's brought the country to the threshold of the political autonomy within a decade of organized African nationalism. July 7, 1954, was a historical day for it was then when the Tanganyika African National Union (T.A.N.U.) was born in Der es Zalasa, the country’s capital, with Julius K. Nyerere as president. From that day one, T.A.N.U. has struggled relentlessly for the independence of Tanganyika. Hence the significant constitutional changes announced in the Legislative Council by the governor, Sir Richard Turnbull, on December 15, 1959, represented an important achievement for the African nationalist movement. In a nutshell, his Excellency’s announcement purported that from September, 1960, after the second general election, Tanganyika would be self-governing to the extent that both in the Legislature and in the Council of Ministers the elected element would predominate.

  This thesis represents an attempt to open a new avenue in the study of African nationalism. It is an endeavor to analyze and trace the development of Tanganyikan nationalism. In exploring the entire vista of Tanganyikan nationalism, some fresh light might be thrown upon the peculiar trend of African nationalism in its Tanganyikan context. That would, in turn, help to reduce the the barest minimum the danger of highlighting either the surface similarities between the different versions of African nationalism in the way tourists sometimes tend to mislead students of African political aspirations of the apparent dichotomies between African nationalism which, when tested on the touchstone of reality, might be shown to be differences in degree rather than in kind.

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  History of Shin Buddhism in the United States

  Manimai Ratanamani

  The aim of this study is to tell the history of Shin Buddhism in the continental United States. In order to familiarize the reader with Buddhism, a brief historical and doctrinal background is presented here.

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  A study of the congressional hearings on the dismissal of General MacArthur

  Byford Scott

  The eye witnesses against MacArthur were members of the Truman Administration. Acheson and Marshall were the principal critics of MacArthur’s stand. Secretary Acheson testified that MacArthur had done a fine job in Japan and our allies agreed without policy there. Acheson replied to the alleged lack of policy by making a distinction between our policy and our war aims. Our policy in Korea looked to a unified, independent democratic government, but our war aim was to stop the attack on South Korea. Regarding the proposal that the United States take unilateral action if our allies did not support us, he said that our collective-security system could not survive if we took action other members of the system disapproved. He opposed the use of Nationalist troops on the grounds that it would weaken the defense of Formosa, and was complicated by other nations fighting in Korea that did not recognize the Nationalist Government. Finally Acheson denied that MacArthur was not allowed to issue battle communiques on the real military situation in Korea. However he felt that the General’s release of March 20 concerning truce negotiations gave the impression that the United States was speaking with two voices.

  Secretary of Defense George Marshall has a military point of view and at the same time a global picture of the situation. He believed that the Nationalist forces would not be effective in Korea. He testified that MacArthur’s removal was necessitated by his public disagreement with the foreign and defense policies of the United States. He made it clear that MacArthur had not violated any military policy, but he had made public his disagreement with it to such a degree that it interfered with the carrying out of that policy. All of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marshall testified, concurred in the relief of General MacArthur. General Bradley’s testimony was probably the most damaging to MacArthur. The principal point bought out by Bradley was that MacArthur’s strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. He pointed out that we also had sanctuary since the Chinese did not bomb out ports and supply bases. He felt that a blockade would involve the ports of Hong Kong and Dairen, and therefore would not be tenable. Furthermore, MacArthur was not in agreement with the decision to limit the conflict to Korea, and his actions, Bradley said, jeopardized the civilian control of the military authorities.

  Both Generals Breadeley and Collins agreed that they would have to resign and speak out in case they were involved in a conflict in which duty and the best interest of the country could not be reconciled.

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  A historical study of the development of the Bracero Program,with special emphasis on the Coachella and Imperial Valleys

  Margaret Breed MacKaye

  Why at the present time do we need added sources of labor beyond that available within the country? One faction would cry, "We don't!" Another would say, "We decry the importation of labor, but there simply aren't United States citizens in sufficient numbers to get these jobs done." A third group would probably answer, "Why worry about it? These laborers will come across the border, legally or illegally; we may as well avail ourselves of their services." Perhaps we should let a fourth group speak: "We must see that you do not misuse these people."

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  A brief history of Formosa

  Ben Warren Mattison

  Until 1949, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fled from Mainland China to the Island of Formosa, few people throughout the world knew about that island of the China coast. Once Formosa became the seat of the Nationalist Government of China that little island has been much in headlines everywhere. Indeed, Formosa is of major importance in world politics and international affairs these days.

  So much for a very brief sketch of the island itself. The story of its importance, its history and its development will be the purpose of the balance of this study.

  It is not to be the purpose of this treatise to present an exhaustive study of all the various facets of the life of Formosa’s many classes and types of people. Rather, it will be an endeavor, briefly, to outline the history of Formosa, and thus identify the place and power of Formosa as it related to the whole field of contemporary history.

  No doubt for many years to come, Formosa will continue to be an important factor in the affairs of the Far East.

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  The Basques

  Henry Camille Blaud

  Although the frontiers of knowledge in most fields have been pushed to the point where many people feel that the genius of mankind had solved all, an enigma still con- fronts the contemporary anthropologist and philologist: the riddle of the origin of the Basques and their language.

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  The EPIC movement and the California election of 1934

  Robert Matteson Gordon

  Californians, in 1933 and 1934, were psychologically ready to act against prevailing social and economic conditions. Existing economic dislocations could not continue for long without peril. It was not clear whether the revolt would be toward fascism or extreme radicalism. There was at all events a growing popular reaction against those who had political and economic control of the State, and this was especially noticeable in the southern part of the State.

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  Political and economic factors in the decline of the British empire

  Pasquale Anania

  The decline of British influence in world affairs is one of the more pronounced political phenomena of modern times. Over the past century key territories subject to British rule have been slipping loose from their imperial moorings at an ever more rapid rate. Those remaining subject to British authority grow progressively more belligerent.

  In his search for an understanding or this eclipse or British sovereignty, the contemporary historian finds himself groping through a network of complexly interrelated social, political, economic, and psychological processes. One or another student or history has argued that specific instances or groups of these processes are the mechanisms motivating the collapse of the British hegemony. Among those more commonly cited is that group of influences intimately allied with and stimulated by the progressive maturation of voting franchise reform movements within the United Kingdom. In effect, this view argues that franchise reforms introduced radical changes in imperial attitudes in the United Kingdom and that these in turn led to long-range trends pointed at the splintering of the empire: e.g., the political decline of the landed aristocracy resulted in the creation of the Commonwealth; or, the rise or the Labor Party carried with it a campaign successfully aimed at the deliberate discarding of imperial holdings.

  It is the purpose or this study to examine this argument. Such an examination, it would seem, demands first of all a review of the more obvious factors concerned in the integration and disintegration of the British empire. This review should provide a context within which specific franchise reform within the United Kingdom can be related to other historical events contemporary with them but more specifically related to the disintegration of Britain's imperial hegemony. It is proposed that these relationships should lead to an effective basis for accessing the relative truth or falsehood of the argument that progressive franchise reform has been one of the historical trends largely contributory to the dismemberment of the British empire.

  Since the analysis to be presented is in part contingent upon a specialized understanding of the term empire, it would appear necessary to begin with a definition of this term.

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  A history of the Mormon settlement of central California with emphasis on New Hope and San Francisco, 1846-1847, and Modesto, 1920-1954

  Kenneth Wayne Baldridge

  Mormon contributions to California history are generally well known. Most school children have heard of the march of the Mormon Battalion. The name of Samuel Brannan is known to almost any student interested in this area. The more inquisitive scholar is familiar with the voyage of the BROOKLYN and subsequent relations of the Mormons to the history of San Francisco. The mention of New Hope, however, brings puzzled looks to the faces of most people, including Mormons today living within twenty miles of the area.

  The Mormon movement to California was part of a general exodus by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the East and Mid-west. Persecuted for many reasons, the Mormons had been forced to leave their homes in Illinois for some place "beyond the Rocky Mountains". At the same time, those members of' the Church in the eastern states were directed to proceed by ship to a spot on the Pacific Coast. It is the latter group about whom Part I is written.

  Much of the history of the Mormons in California, and of New Hope in particular, is sketchy, misleading and at times in actual error. Although it must be admitted that almost all the material contained in Part I had been used before by other writers, this study, as far as it is known, offers a contribution in that every reference available on Mormons in central California, in New Hope in particular, is gathered together within one volume.

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  A study of the Hawaiian statehood movement

  Leslie Gay Knoles

  A study of the development of the issues in the Hawaiian statehood controversy reveals the paradoxical fact that, while Americans were promoting the mutual interest of Hawaii and the United States, they were also developing a social, economic, and political atmosphere that has resulted in forces inimical to the consummation of a logical realization of Hawaii’s integration as a state. A knowledge of how Hawaii became linked to the United States, and of the institutions developed in the islands prior to annexation in 1898 is essential to an understanding of the contemporary problem.

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  A history of the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery and its founders

  Donald Clyde Ball

  The E. B. Crocker Art Gallery of Sacramento is the oldest public art museum in the West. The author of this study, a Sacramentan, has long been interested in the history of this institution, how was the collection assembled? What is its value? How did it come to Sacramento? What is the nature of the California museum Association which is the custodian of the collection, This paper is an attempt to answer these questions. The answers are not as complete as the author might wish, but they are as complete as extant records and accounts allow. This study provides a more accurate history of the collection and the gallery than has sometimes been given in previous accounts. A review of past recommendations of authoritative persons acquainted with the institution is also given in order to present an idea of its future possibilities.

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  A history of Mount Whitney

  Crispin Melton Wood

  The most elevated point in the United States is Mount Whitney. Many citizens in the United States. know this. But. what more do they know of it? Some guess that it is in t -he Sierra Nevada Mountains, some vaguely realize that it is in California, but how many know of the role Mount Whitney has played in the development of science, history and literature of the west and of the nation?

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  Cordell Hull and the Good Neighbor Policy

  Mackey Wilbur Hill

  It is the purpose of this study to trace in part Hull's role as implementer of the Good Neighbor policy particularly in the Western Hemisphere. Hull was an internationalist. His ultimate goal was to lead the way to a better world order that is built upon cooperation and mutual respect. This was the original meaning of the Good Neighbor policy as stated in Mr. Roosevelt's first inaugural address. It was the mood of good will and cooperation that was to characterize America's foreign relations. However, if nations outside of this hemisphere were to take America seriously and follow her example, that policy must be made to work in the Americas.

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  An inquiry into the rise of communism in China

  Edward Augustine Raleigh

  The Chinese Communist Party cannot raise the living standard in China without substantially jeopardizing its hold on people. A monolithic state exists because economic considerations overshadow political usurpation of power. When men are fed and properly clothed in the industrial society that theoretically is the base of Communism, they turn to some other governmental form.

  Communism in China has an emotional side that led its believers into the long fight for survival. Communists fought for a cause. They believed in the right of their way and they still believe in it. However, as Dallin points out in his Soviet Russia and the Far East, devotion to a cause is not enough to make that cause just or to make it succeed. Japanese kamikaze fliers willingly sacrificed their lives; Hitler’s S.S. legions fought long and well; medieval witch hunts aroused sincere religious fanaticism. In each ease these were a dedicated minority. Others were swayed to the banner for a limited time.

  So it has been in China. A hard, closely-knit core has ruled since 1926. Followers have multiplied as economic conditions worsened.