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Committee of 48

Index Committee of 48

The Committee of 48 was an American liberal political association established in 1919 in the hope of creating a new political party for social reform to stand in opposition to the increasingly conservative Republican and Democratic parties. [1]

73 relations: Albert DeSilver, Americanism (ideology), Amos Pinchot, Arthur Garfield Hays, Autocracy, B. W. Huebsch, Bourgeoisie, Carl D. Thompson, Charles W. Bryan, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Chartism, Civil and political rights, Coal, Conference for Progressive Political Action, Conservatism, Declaration of war, Democratic Party (United States), Disarmament, Dudley Field Malone, Eastern United States, Feedlot, Frederic C. Howe, Georgism, Grain elevator, Guild socialism, Herbert S. Bigelow, Injunction, John Haynes Holmes, Labor Party of the United States, Labour Party (UK), Liberalism, Lumber, Lynn Frazier, Morrison Hotel (Chicago), Morristown, New Jersey, National Party (United States), Natural gas, Nebraska, New York City, Nonpartisan League, North Dakota, Oil, Ordway Tead, Pacifism, Parley P. Christensen, Philanthropy, Political party, President of the United States, Progressivism, Public opinion, ..., Public utility, Reactionary, Reform movement, Republican Party (United States), Revolution, Revolutionary socialism, Robert B. Howell, Robert M. La Follette, Robert Morss Lovett, Rush Limbaugh Sr., St. Louis, State ownership, Swinburne Hale, Third party (politics), Trade union, U.S. state, United States, United States Constitution, United States Senate, Utah, Western United States, Will Durant, Wisconsin. Expand index (23 more) »

Albert DeSilver

Albert DeSilver (August 27, 1888 – December 7, 1924) was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

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Americanism (ideology)

Americanism is a set of the United States patriotic values aimed at creating a collective American identity, and can be defined as "an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning".

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Amos Pinchot

Amos Richards Eno Pinchot (December 6, 1873 – February 18, 1944) was an American lawyer and reformist.

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Arthur Garfield Hays

Arthur Garfield Hays (December 12, 1881 – December 14, 1954) was an American lawyer and champion of civil liberties issues, best known as a co-founder and general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union and for participating in notable cases including the Sacco and Vanzetti trial.

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Autocracy

An autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).

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B. W. Huebsch

Benjamin W. Huebsch (March 21, 1876 – August 7, 1964), often known as Ben Huebsch, was an American publisher in New York City in the early 20th century.

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Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie is a polysemous French term that can mean.

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Carl D. Thompson

Carl Dean Thompson (March 24, 1870 – July 3, 1949) was an American preacher, Christian Socialist, and Social Democratic politician.

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Charles W. Bryan

Charles Wayland Bryan (February 10, 1867 – March 4, 1945) was an American politician who served as the 20th and 23rd Governor of Nebraska, and Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska, and was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1924.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman; also Charlotte Perkins Stetson (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.

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Chartism

Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in Britain that existed from 1838 to 1857.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Conference for Progressive Political Action

The Conference for Progressive Political Action was officially established by the convention call of the 16 major railway labor unions in the United States, represented by a committee of six: William H. Johnston of the Machinists' Union, Martin F. Ryan of the Railway Carmen, Warren S. Stone of the Locomotive Engineers, E. J. Manion or the Railroad Telegraphers, Timothy Healy of the Stationary Firemen, and L. E. Sheppard of the Order of Railway Conductors.

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Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization.

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Declaration of war

A declaration of war is a formal act by which one state goes to war against another.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Disarmament

Disarmament is the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons.

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Dudley Field Malone

Dudley Field Malone (3 June 1882 – 5 October 1950) was an American attorney, politician, liberal activist, and actor.

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Eastern United States

The Eastern United States, commonly referred to as the American East or simply the East, is a region roughly coinciding with the boundaries of the United States established in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which bounded the new country to the west along the Mississippi River.

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Feedlot

A feedlot or feed yard is a type of animal feeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming for finishing livestock, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter.

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Frederic C. Howe

Frederic Clemson Howe (November 21, 1867 – August 3, 1940) was a member of the Ohio Senate, a dedicated yet flexible Georgist (advocate of a single tax), Commissioner of Immigration of the Port of New York, and published author.

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Georgism

Georgism, also called geoism and single tax (archaic), is an economic philosophy holding that, while people should own the value they produce themselves, economic value derived from land (including natural resources and natural opportunities) should belong equally to all members of society.

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Grain elevator

A grain elevator is an agrarian facility complex designed to stockpile or store grain.

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Guild socialism

Guild socialism is a political movement advocating workers' control of industry through the medium of trade-related guilds "in an implied contractual relationship with the public".

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Herbert S. Bigelow

Herbert Seely Bigelow (January 4, 1870 – November 11, 1951) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and Georgist 'single-taxer'.

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Injunction

An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts.

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John Haynes Holmes

John Haynes Holmes (November 29, 1879 – April 3, 1964) was a prominent Unitarian minister, pacifist, and co-founder of the NAACP and the ACLU.

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Labor Party of the United States

The Labor Party of the United States was a short-lived political party formed by several state-level labor parties upon the encouragement of Chicago Federation of Labor leader John Fitzpatrick.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty and equality.

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Lumber

Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.

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Lynn Frazier

Lynn Joseph Frazier (December 21, 1874January 11, 1947) was a politician from North Dakota, serving as a U.S. Senator from 1923 to 1941 and the 12th Governor of North Dakota from 1917 until being recalled in 1921.

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Morrison Hotel (Chicago)

The Morrison Hotel was a high rise hotel at the corner of Madison and Clark Streets in the downtown Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Morristown, New Jersey

Morristown is a town and county seat of Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

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National Party (United States)

The National Party was an early-20th-century national political organization in the United States founded by pro-war defectors from the Socialist Party of America in 1917.

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Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nonpartisan League

The Nonpartisan League (NPL) was a political organization founded in 1915 in the United States by Arthur C. Townley, former organizer for the Socialist Party of America.

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North Dakota

North Dakota is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States.

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Oil

An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic (does not mix with water, literally "water fearing") and lipophilic (mixes with other oils, literally "fat loving").

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Ordway Tead

Ordway Tead (10 September 1891 – November 1973)MLW, "Tead, Ordway (1891–1973)," in: Encyclopedia of History of American Management, Morgen Witzel (ed.), 2005.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is opposition to war, militarism, or violence.

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Parley P. Christensen

Parley Parker Christensen (July 19, 1869 – February 10, 1954) was an American politician and nominee of the Farmer–Labor Party for President of the United States in 1920.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy means the love of humanity.

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Political party

A political party is an organised group of people, often with common views, who come together to contest elections and hold power in government.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Progressivism

Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.

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Public opinion

Public opinion consists of the desires, wants, and thinking of the majority of the people; it is the collective opinion of the people of a society or state on an issue or problem.

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Public utility

A public utility (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure).

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Reactionary

A reactionary is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the status quo ante, the previous political state of society, which they believe possessed characteristics (discipline, respect for authority, etc.) that are negatively absent from the contemporary status quo of a society.

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Reform movement

A reform movement is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or political system closer to the community's ideal.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Revolution

In political science, a revolution (Latin: revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolt against the government, typically due to perceived oppression (political, social, economic).

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Revolutionary socialism

Revolutionary socialism is the socialist doctrine that social revolution is necessary in order to bring about structural changes to society.

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Robert B. Howell

Robert Beecher Howell (January 21, 1864 March 11, 1933) was a Nebraska progressive Republican politician.

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Robert M. La Follette

Robert Marion La Follette, Sr. (June 14, 1855June 18, 1925) was an American lawyer and politician.

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Robert Morss Lovett

Robert Morss Lovett (December 25, 1870 – February 8, 1956) was an American academic, writer, editor, political activist, and government official.

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Rush Limbaugh Sr.

Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr. (September 27, 1891 – April 8, 1996) was an American jurist, legislator, and ambassador.

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St. Louis

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State ownership

State ownership (also called public ownership and government ownership) is the ownership of an industry, asset, or enterprise by the state or a public body representing a community as opposed to an individual or private party.

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Swinburne Hale

Swinburne Hale (1884–1937) was an American lawyer and poet who is best remembered as one of the leading civil rights attorneys of the decade of the 1920s.

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Third party (politics)

In electoral politics, a third party is any party contending for votes that failed to outpoll either of its two strongest rivals (or, in the context of an impending election, is considered highly unlikely to do so).

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Constitution

The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Western United States

The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West, the Far West, or simply the West, traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States.

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Will Durant

William James "Will" Durant (November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American writer, historian, and philosopher.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_48

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