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Land League
Land League (Irish National Land League), the key organization in the main phase of the Land War, founded in Dublin in October 1879. Its chief architect was Michael Davitt, who intended it to promote and co‐ordinate a countywide campaign against landlordism. The decision of Charles ... Read more |
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Primrose League
Primrose League. Victorian Conservative organization. Founded in 1883 by Lord Randolph Churchill and John Gorst, the Primrose League was intended to enable the Conservatives to adapt to the extension of democracy. The Tory leaders feared that any popular organization would eventually challenge... Read more |
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Hugh B. Price
Hugh B. Price 1941– National Urban League President and Chief Executive Off... Read more |
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National League
National League, a nationalist organization formed in October 1882 as a replacement for the suppressed Land League. Few of the former controlling members of the Land League were on the executive of the new body, while local branches tended to have a wider social mix than their Land League... Read more |
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Authors League of America
Authors League of America, founded in 1912 to protect copyright material. Its categories of membership have changed over the years, and in 1964 its structure added to the League an Authors Guild and a Dramatists Guild. Matters of concern to members in both Guilds (e.g. copyright, freedom of... Read more |
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Highland Land League
Highland Land League. Scottish crofters in the 1870s watched the success of the Irish in obtaining concessions, had ‘a mind to turn rebels themselves’, and concluded that the Irish Land League might be copied. The Highland Land League was formed in 1882 and returned four sympathetic... Read more |
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National Consumers League
National Consumers' League organization designed to promote better conditions among workers by encouraging the purchase of articles made and sold under improved working conditions. The movement started in England (1890); the U.S. group was founded (1899) by Florence Kelley and her followers. The... Read more |
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Roy Campanella
Roy Campanella 1921-1993 American baseball player Known as "Campy" by his friends, colleagues, and fans, Roy Campanella is considered by many to be the best baseball catcher in the history of the game. He is often mentioned in the same breath as the great catcher Yogi Berra , who played for the... Read more |
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Catholic League
CATHOLIC LEAGUE (FRANCE) CATHOLIC LEAGUE (FRANCE). The Catholic League originated in France in the 1560s, when communities formed local defense organizations to protect themselves against armed Protestants and oppose the implementation of royal policies that gave legal recognition to... Read more |
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Anti-Saloon League
Anti-Saloon League U.S. organization working for prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquors. Founded in 1893 as the Ohio Anti-Saloon League at Oberlin, Ohio, by representatives of temperance societies and evangelical Protestant churches, it came to wield great political influence. Vigorously led... Read more |
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