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Conservative party
Conservative party British political party, formally the Conservative and Unionist party and a continuation of the historic Tory party. The Rise of the Conservative Party The name "conservative" was used by George Canning as early as 1824 and was first popularized by John Wilson Croker in... Read more |
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Progressive Conservative party
Progressive Conservative party former Canadian political party, formed in 1942 by the merger of the Progressive and Conservative parties. Beginning with the first Canadian prime minister, John A. Macdonald in 1867, the Conservative party dominated Canadian politics for much of the first three... Read more |
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Pacific scandal
Pacific scandal 1873, a major event in Canadian political history. Charges were made in Parliament that the Conservative administration of Sir John A. Macdonald had accepted campaign funds from Sir Hugh Allan in return for a promise to award Allan's syndicate the contract to build the Canadian... Read more |
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Conservation biology
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, an interdisciplinary, mission-oriented science with the goal of alleviating the extinction crisis and fostering biological diversity. Conservation biologists include researchers and managers from fields as varied as ecology, genetics, evolution,... Read more |
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Harlan Fiske Stone
Harlan Fiske Stone 1872-1946, American jurist, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (1941-46), b. Chesterfield, N.H. A graduate (1898) of Columbia Univ. law school, he was admitted (1899) to the bar, practiced law in New York City, and lectured at the Columbia law school, where he became... Read more |
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Fourth Party
Fourth Party was the name given facetiously to a parliamentary ginger group in the Conservative Party in 1880 (the other three being Liberals, Conservatives, and Irish). It consisted of Lord Randolph Churchill, J. E. Gorst, Sir H. D. Wolff, and, at some distance, Arthur Balfour. The... Read more |
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Isaac Butt
Isaac Butt 1813-79, Irish politician and nationalist leader. A member of both the Irish and the English bar, he was a noted conservative lawyer and scholar and an opponent of Daniel O'Connell . After the Irish famine experience of the 1840s, however, he became increasingly liberal, defended... Read more |
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Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly , 1924-, American conservative activist, b. St. Louis, Mo., as Phyllis Stewart, grad. Washington Univ. (B.A. 1944, J.D. 1978), Harvard (M.A. 1945). A conservative Republican lawyer, she was an anticommunist crusader in the 1950s and 60s, and ran for Congress unsuccessfully three... Read more |
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Defending the Faith: J Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative...
Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America...familiar outlines are all here. Machen, the brilliant NT scholar whose...ambience of the ... |
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Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative...
...state perspective J. Gresham Machen may be the most...Machen was a conservative Protestant who...Finally, while Machen is considered to...Mencken. The bulk of Machen's career was...Christianity as a broad ... |
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Robert E. Speer: Prophet of the American Church.(Book Review)
...between Speer and J. Gresham Machen in 1933 which led to the departure of the conservatives, was a great disappointment. Another crisis he faced was defending the integrity of...spiritual side of the faith. ... |
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