1954 Proceedings: Forty-Fifth Annual Rotary Convention
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Publisher : Rotary International
Page : 386 pages
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Author : Brendan Goff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0674989791
A new history of Rotary International shows how the organization reinforced capitalist values and cultural practices at home and tried to remake the world in the idealized image of Main Street America. Rotary International was born in Chicago in 1905. By the time World War II was over, the organization had made good on its promise to Ògirdle the globe.Ó Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism explores the meteoric rise of a local service club that brought missionary zeal to the spread of American-style economics and civic ideals. Brendan Goff traces RotaryÕs ideological roots to the business progressivism and cultural internationalism of the United States in the early twentieth century. The key idea was that community service was intrinsic to a capitalist way of life. The tone of Òservice above selfÓ was often religious, but, as Rotary looked abroad, it embraced Woodrow WilsonÕs secular message of collective security and international cooperation: civic internationalism was the businessmanÕs version of the Christian imperial civilizing mission, performed outside the state apparatus. The target of this mission was both domestic and global. The Rotarian, the organizationÕs publication, encouraged Americans to see the world as friendly to Main Street values, and Rotary worked with US corporations to export those values. Case studies of Rotary activities in Tokyo and Havana show the group paving the way for encroachments of US powerÑeconomic, political, and culturalÑduring the interwar years. RotaryÕs evangelism on behalf of market-friendly philanthropy and volunteerism reflected a genuine belief in peacemaking through the worldÕs Òparliament of businessmen.Ó But, as Goff makes clear, Rotary also reinforced American power and interests, demonstrating the tension at the core of US-led internationalism.
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Page : 860 pages
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Release : 1954
Category : American literature
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 844 pages
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Release : 1955
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Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)
Author : Massachusetts State Federation of Labor
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780266030041
Excerpt from Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Annual Convention: August 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1931, New Bedford Hotel, New Bedford, Mass I have during the last year picketed, with their employees, those factories paying starvation wages and have been successful in having two of them pay the wage set by the wage board decrees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher : Rotary International
Page : 330 pages
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Author : Newspaper Guild. Convention
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : American Life Convention (Estados Unidos). Annual Meeting (
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Page : 386 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 1953
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Page : 402 pages
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