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 Spanish Civil War - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Republican sympathizers proclaimed it as a struggle between ' tyranny and democracy ', or ' fascism and liberty ', and many idealistic youth of the 1930s who joined the International Brigades considered the saving of the Spanish Republic to be the idealistic cause of the era.
On the Republican side were most liberals, Basque and Catalan nationalists, socialist s, Stalinist and Trotskyite communists, and anarchists of varying ideologies.
One of the principal motives claimed at the time of the initial Nationalist uprising was to confront the anticlericalism of the Republican regime and to defend the Roman Catholic Church, which was censured for its support for the monarchy and which many on the Republican side blamed for the ills of the country.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /spanish_civil_war.htm   (4167 words)

  
 Spanish Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Particularly strong support for the Republicans came from Madrid, Catalonia and the somewhat conservative Roman Catholic Basque Country, partly because these regions were granted a strong autonomy during the Second Republic.
Republican sympathizers proclaimed it as a struggle between " tyranny and democracy ", or " fascism and liberty ", and many idealistic youths of the 1930s who joined the International Brigades thought saving the Spanish Republic was the idealistic cause of the era.
On the Republican side were most liberals, Basque and Catalan nationalists, socialists, Stalinist and Trotskyist communists, and anarchists of varying ideologies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish_Civil_War   (4707 words)

  
 Spanish Civil War - Main Events Of The War
The Nationalist gunboat Eduardo Dato was sunk at Algerciras by the Republican battleship Jaime I.
Republican resistance was, however, increasing, and the Nationalists brought the offensive to a halt to allow time for their troops to rest and re-equip before the attack on Valencia.
The Republican gunboat Laya was sunk by Nationalist aircraft at Valencia.
www.users.dircon.co.uk /~warden/scw/scwevent.htm   (3697 words)

  
 HarpWeek | Elections | 1864 Overview
The Republican campaign warned the Union: “Don’t swap horses in the middle of the stream.” They went beyond that innocuous slogan, however, to equate opposition to Lincoln and the Republicans with disloyalty to the Union.
With 78 percent of the Union electorate casting ballots, Lincoln was reelected in an Electoral College landslide, 212 to McClellan’s 21.
Republicans also gained seats in Congress to retain unassailable control, 149 to 42 in the House and 42 to 10 in the Senate; took back several state legislatures; and lost only the governorship of New Jersey (McClellan’s home state).
elections.harpweek.com /1864/Overview-1864-2.htm   (1286 words)

  
 Union County BIRTHS A - P
Graham of Clover creek Union county, March 20, 1890, a son.
Born, in Union, November 7, 1921, to Mr.
Mitchell are from Union and are living on the Newman ranch.
www.usgennet.org /usa/or/county/union1/births.htm   (1633 words)

  
 Uzbek Republican Union of Consumer Societies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It was the successor to the Turkistan Union of Consumers' Co-operative Societies, which was operating in the Turkistan region since 1920 till the state demarcation of Central Asia in 1925.
The objective of the Uzbek Republican Union of Consumer Societies is to improve the productivity, establish a trade network, expansion of activities, greater procurement and development of consumer co-operatives for the betterment of its millions of members by providing various kinds of services.
The union's members account for almost 35 per cent of bread baked in the republic and 25% of the soft drinks and 15% of confectionery items.
www.coop.org /ica/members/urucs.html   (541 words)

  
 The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - 09-Aug-05 - John Eisenhower:
Why I will vote for John Kerry for ...
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As son of a Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican.
Republicans disliked taxes, of course, but the party accepted them as a necessary means of keep the nation’s financial structure sound.
Today’s Republican leadership, while not solely accountable for the loss of American jobs, encourages it with its tax code and heads us in the direction of a society of very rich and very poor.
www.theunionleader.com /articles_showa.html?article=44657   (820 words)

  
 Definition of Talk:Republican Party (United States)
Kerry Republicans are similar to the swing voting Reagan Democrats who have been mentioned in Reagan's article and have a wiki entry of their own.
Republicans have and continue to oppose anti-discrimination ordinances, allowing gays to serve in the military, and the providing any form of legal benefits to gay couples (the 2004 GOP platform is very clear on the latter point).
Republicans have opposed basically all of these initiatives, though they are now concentrating their fire on the marriage issue.
www.wordiq.com /definition/Talk:Republican_Party_%28United_States%29   (9373 words)

  
 CU Journal Daily for 09/06/02   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Credit unions saturated the district for Bishop with hundreds of thousands of mailings over the past four months to rouse members in 15 district credit unions, first in a tough primary, then in Tuesday's general election when he bested local businessman David Thomas.
The letter was sent out to thousands of the state's credit union executives in the waning days of the campaign by the Michigan CU League, which switched its backing to Granholm, only after she defeated their primary candidate, former Rep. David Bonior.
Under the plan, Florida's largest credit union would establish a CUSO which would be chartered as a trust-only thrift by federal regulators at the Office of Thrift Supervision and the deposits would be insured by the FDIC.
www.cujournal.com /archive/020906.htm   (1781 words)

  
 Serebella Contents Republican River---Republic of Djibouti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking.
Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water - Title of a collection of essays published by the leftwing novelist H. Wells in 1939.
The Republican Party, an old-fashioned name for Sinn Fein, a socialist Republican party in Ireland.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/contains-364075-364122-Republican_River-Republic_of_Djibouti.html   (477 words)

  
 REPUBLICAN - Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.
Consonant with the principles of a republic ; as, republican sentiments or opinions ; republican manners.
One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/republican   (217 words)

  
 Democratic Underground Forums - Teamsters Union's Hoffa supports Republican govs??? Bizarre!!!!
Indeed, according to Ken Paff, national organizer for Teamsters for a Democratic Union (a reform group), Teamsters president James Hoffa sees cooperating with Bush as an opportunity to terminate federal oversight of the union, mandated in 1989 after deep corruption was revealed.
A former official of the union, E. Partin, was in prison facing charges of kidnapping, murder, robbery and rape, agreed to do a deal with the authorities and provide evidence against Hoffa.
Although a union may disagree on a particular issue such as NAFTA, they will still support a candidate because the majority of the members believe the candidate will be better for working Americans.
www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID27/23934.html   (2655 words)

  
 Danny Morrison - Irish Political News - Republican victory in Queen's University election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Speaking to An Phoblacht, Caolan explained that the election of five Sinn Féin members to the Students Union executive indicated that "a groundswell of republicanism" exists in Queen's University, the highest seat of learning in the Six Counties and once the preserve of the unionist ruling class.
The Lurgan student described how the Students Union agreed to honour Bernadette McAliskey, who studied at Queen's in the 60s, with an honourary lifetime membership of the union but that the move was opposed by the Council.
Interesting that in the University of Ulster, in which the GAA dominates the Students' Union, that most of the Catholic and nationalist students I considered friends thought that their dual-linguistic policy was not only a waste of time, but also a waste of paper (the Green issue was big when I went there)...
www.dannymorrison.com /forum/printthread.php?t=3094   (862 words)

  
 Porter/Union Fatcats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the Midwest especially, labor unions in general are known for their prejudice against women and minorities.
The local unions continue to support Democratic presidential candidates and Congressman Lane Evans, but this year the Maytag union and the United Transportation Union, comprised of a number of railroad unions, are supporting some Republican candidates.
I believe one major reason union organizations in Illinois have lost their clout over the last several decades is because they too often play footsie with the Republican party, which fought against every benefit organized labor has ever received, including the ability to organize.
www.thezephyr.com /porter/unionfatcats.htm   (532 words)

  
 New Hampshire Senate Democratic Caucus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
But she said it was hired for telemarketing services to encourage people to vote Republican, not to jam telephone lines.
William Clayton, president of the Manchester firefighters union, said he was pleased that investigators were pursuing the case.
Clayton said the union has been providing rides to the polls for 14 years, “and we have repeat customers in the elderly high-rises.
www.nhsenatedemocrats.org /news/phonegate7.2.04.html   (653 words)

  
 Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union Address
Thus, the Republican stance of the time was not revolutionary, but similar to the Founding Fathers, and should not alarm Southerners (radicals had threatened to secede if a Republican was elected President).
Every Republican man knew that, as to himself at least, your charge was a slander, and he was not much inclined by it to cast his vote in your favor.
Republican doctrines and declarations are accompanied with a continual protest against any interference whatever with your slaves, or with you about your slaves.
showcase.netins.net /web/creative/lincoln/speeches/cooper.htm   (6375 words)

  
 Union County BIRTHS A - P
Dorothy Chadwick died in September, 1985, a resident of rural Union, Oregon.
Born, on the Hutchinson ranch near Union, June 20, to Mr.
Born, in Union, August 7, 1924 to Mr.
www.usgennet.org /usa/or/county/union1/births1.htm   (2215 words)

  
 Republican Springfield Union Resources from the Right Side of the Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Eager to deliver the Union County Republican endorsement.....During the spirited contest for Union County...
Beyond the Divide: Rift in labor unions may be bad news for employers because fight may intensify competition for (Winston-Salem Journal)
An angry rift between union leaders filled the spotlight at last week's AFL-CIO gathering in Chicago.
www.rtside.com /directory/republican-springfield-union.html   (326 words)

  
 Legislative Bulletins
Local leaders and union activists are joining a growing movement to give Republican union members more of a voice in the Republican Party.
As union workers, we know that prosperity is empty if a society fails to give workers the respect we are all due.
If you are a local union leader, and would like to send a letter to your Republican Union members telling them about the caucus, please call Jennifer at (303) 433-2100 ext.
www.coaflcio.org /republicans.htm   (381 words)

  
 Deroy Murdock on Arlen Specter & Unions on National Review Online
Specter was one of only four GOP senators to help 50 Democrats and independent James Jeffords of Vermont kill an amendment by Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell to require union presidents and secretary-treasurers to certify the accuracy of their financial statements.
In 2001, Specter was one of the few Republicans to support a proposal by then-Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D., S.D.) to impose "exclusive" or monopoly collective bargaining on state and local firefighters and cops across America.
Specter's 40-percent approval rating among Republicans — despite four terms in the Senate, President Bush's endorsement, and a three-to-one spending advantage — is anemic.
www.nationalreview.com /murdock/murdock200404260832.asp   (1200 words)

  
 News Republican Sunday Union Resources from the Right Side of the Web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The head of the Manchester Transit Authority said last week there are two regular stops at the new senior center — a response to a complaint by mayoral candidate Frank Guinta that the needed bus service was missing.
Players union officials will discuss with Major League Baseball executives Monday in Chicago how and why the steroid Baltimore Orioles first baseman Rafael Palmeiro tested positive leaked to the public.
Mauritania’s new military rulers, who seized power in a bloodless coup last week, met with a delegation from the African Union in the capital Nouakchott on Tuesday amid signs that the international community’s frosty reaction was thawing.
www.rtside.com /directory/news-republican-sunday-union.html   (422 words)

  
 CU Journal Daily for 09/01/02   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Credit unions were pulling for Gekas because of his support on the bankruptcy bill but were torn between the two because Holden, a supporter of HR 1151, was also a big credit union supporter.
In two of the biggest upsets in the country, high Republican turnout helped boost Rep. Saxby Chambliss over Democratic incumbent Max Cleland in the Senate race; and former state senator Sonny Perdue over Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes, with credit unions on the wrong side of both races.
Credit unions endorsed Cleland and Barnes for reelection, but were also working on behalf of Chambliss and Perdue because the two also had pro-credit union records, according to Cindy Connelly, chief lobbyist for Georgia CU Affiliates.
www.cujournal.com /archive/020901.htm   (2021 words)

  
 The Byelorussian Republican Bar assotiation
The Republican Bar was established in the year 1997 and carries out its activity on the basis of the Charter.
The Supreme body of the Republican Bar is the Presidium, to which the most competent lawyers of the Republic are elected.
At the site there are materials about the history of establishment and development of the Belarusian Republican Union of the Lawyers which was created and started its activity under the initiative of Belarusian lawyers, Republican Bar, Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno, Minsk and Mogilyov Regional and Minsk City Bar.
www.rka.by /index_e.html   (237 words)

  
 Abraham Lincoln
At the last moment it was switched to the brand new Cooper Union in lower Manhattan, and was scheduled for Monday, February 27, 1860 (Freeman 1960, 13-17).
Republicans only objected to the introduction of slavery into the territories by a surprise measure (Nevins 1950, 181-182).
All Republicans ask is that the principals established by the Founding Fathers be followed: that the National Government be allowed to regulate slavery in the territories.
www.nps.gov /liho/cooper/cooper.htm   (2831 words)

  
 Union County Republican Chairman Phil Morin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the wake of the arrest last week of Freeholder John Wohlrab, the Union County Democrats announced today that Wohlrab was resigning from the Freeholder Board “effective immediately.” Wohlrab was arrested last week by the Linden Police Department on charges stemming from alleged domestic abuse.
The Union County Democratic Committee has set a meeting for Tuesday evening to select a replacement for his vacant freeholder seat.
are being disenfranchised by the Union County Democrat machine's manipulation of this freeholder seat.” Wohlarb's seat was originally vacated when then-freeholder Nick Scutari filled the Senate seat of Joe Suliga following an arrest for alleged public intoxication and harassment of a female casino patron.
www.politicsnj.com /morin101404.htm   (362 words)

  
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Charles Sumner, before the New York Young Men's Republican Union, at Cooper Institute, New York, on the afternoon of November 5, 1864.","","28800","0001.gif","1","1","","0001.tif" "Slavery and the rebellion, one and inseparable.
Charles Sumner, before the New York Young Men's Republican Union, at Cooper Institute, New York, on the afternoon of November 5, 1864.","","28800","0002z.gif","2","2","","0002z.tif" "Slavery and the rebellion, one and inseparable.
Charles Sumner, before the New York Young Men's Republican Union, at Cooper Institute, New York, on the afternoon of November 5, 1864.","","28800","0003.gif","3","3","","0003.tif" "Slavery and the rebellion, one and inseparable.
lcweb2.loc.gov /rbc/rbaapc/28800/rbaapc28800.data   (863 words)

  
 Gender Gap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lower educational attainment, union membership, and minority status all predict a vote for Clinton, while church attendance, Southern residence and homemaker status increase likelihood of support for Dole.
Female union members or members of union household are 7 points more probable to vote for Clinton (p=.69 to.76).
It is equally plausible to discuss the movement of men into the Republican Party as an explanation for the gender gap (Wirls 1986).
www.ksg.harvard.edu /prg/greenb/gengap.htm   (5747 words)

  
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Of the various groups on the left the Republican Congress was to become the pivotal organisation in rallying support for the Spanish Republic.
The Republican Congress was born from the 1934 I.R.A. Army Convention.
Support from sections of the Trade Union movement and other organisations drifted away and the predominant movement in the Congress was to become the C.P.I..
members.lycos.co.uk /spanishcivilwar/diss01.htm   (10717 words)

  
 Credit Union Newswatch: Republican Tax Writers Support Tax Status   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Six Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee wrote a letter June 25 to President George W. Bush thanking him for his April 30 letter to CUNA President/CEO Dan Mica supporting credit unions' tax exemption status.
CUNA has been working to create an environment on Capitol Hill where lawmakers feel encouraged to side with the 85 million Americans who are credit union members.
They believe credit unions should remain tax exempt because they are member-owned, democratically operated, not-for-profit organizations generally managed by volunteer boards of directors, and because they have the specified mission of meeting the credit and savings needs of consumers.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3989/is_200407/ai_n9448702   (381 words)

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