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Kerr, Kathel Austin was born on August 29, 1938 in St. Louis. Son of Kathel Bedortha and Ruth Sidebotham Kerr.
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With this volume, the Nearby History Series will lead you on a journey to discover how the businesses in your community helped shape its present form. Providing fundamental information on the processes of investigating a business' heritage, Local Businesses acts as a complete guide for local historians and historical societies, business historians, business owners, local citizens, museum workers and librarians interested in examining this aspect of local history. Local Businesses is Volume 5 in The Nearby History Series.
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( This book examines the concern of a variety of interest...)
This book examines the concern of a variety of interest groups with federal policy toward railroads, concentrating on the crucial years during World War I when the federal government ran the industry, and prior to the passage of the Transportation Act of 1920. Through extensive archival research, James A. Kerr describes the political dealings among those involved in railroad-government relations: labor leaders; shippers; railroad executives; and financiers; and analyzes the motivations that influenced policymaking.
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Timelines and examples from well-known companies help students gain a better understanding of the important connections among public policy and businesses, as well as a comparative understanding of business history over time and in recent decades.
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(The Anti-Saloon League, the organization largely responsi...)
The Anti-Saloon League, the organization largely responsible for the enactment of Prohibition in 1919, can be viewed as one of the earliest and most successful pressure groups in American politics. this study by K. Austin Kerr utilizes previously unavailable materials to provide the first full history of the political activity of the Anti-Saloon League and the prohibition movement. Kerr describes how the league arose out of the failures of prohibition movements in the 19th century. Explaining that the Anti-Saloon League adapted business managerial techniques to the reform struggle, Kerr shows that it created a leadership cadre who mobilized a mass constituency outside of the party system. The league stimulated and then rode the crest of Progressive optimism to national victory. but it was unsuited for its self-proclaimed role as the guardian of reform; although it main0tained a facade of power after 1920, it was not able to reconcile competing views and to enunciate a clear strategy for a dry America. While the Anti-saloon League can be given much credit for the passage of the Prohibition amendment, it must also be said that the rejection of prohibition after 1929 was facilitated by the failure of this organization.
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Kerr, Kathel Austin was born on August 29, 1938 in St. Louis. Son of Kathel Bedortha and Ruth Sidebotham Kerr.
AB, Oberlin College, 1959. Master of Arts, University Iowa, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pittsburgh, 1965.
Professor history Ohio State University, Columbus, 1965—2004, professor history emeritus, since 2004. President Business History Conference, 1992—1993. Specialist fourth class United States Army Reserve, 1961-1967.
( This book examines the concern of a variety of interest...)
(Timelines and examples from well-known companies help stu...)
(The Anti-Saloon League, the organization largely responsi...)
(With this volume, the Nearby History Series will lead you...)
(Book by Mansel G. Blackford, K. Austin Kerr)
Member of Business History Conference (president 1992-1993), Ohio Academy History 2003-2004, Alcohol and Drugs History Society 1990-1992.
Married Rita Butchko, September 2, 1967. Children: Julie Ruth, Kathleen, Jonathan Austin.