Because of the political upheaval in Germany in the 1930's, Steinberg was forced to restrict his activities to the Jewish community.

what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

It was a response to the conflict between political pressure and the moral intuition which resulted in attempts at prediction.

For a freshman Congressman to read political Lessons to graybeard Democrats was poor policy for one who needed to make friends.

Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.

The idea was not even suggested because political expediency prevailed over wisdom.

I was, it seemed, persona non grata in every quarter, but not entirely without a staunch following of noted political thinkers and students of jurisprudence.

Until the Charter of Liberties was issued in the fall of 1958, there were no guarantees of the right to assemble or to organize for political purposes.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.

The value of the elections was lost, both as an experiment in increased political participation and as a reliable indicator of commercial interest, as shown in Table 1.

The new Council was itself inescapably of political meaning, which was most clearly revealed in the absence of any U.N.F.P. members and the presence of several Istiqlal leaders.

Thus the Congress marks a formal recognition of the political system that was central to world politics for a century.

In this connection, it might be noted that the theory of games was a mathematical discovery long before its uses in political science were exploited.

These trials were properly termed `` political cases '' in that the trial itself was a political act producing political consequences.

( One big question: If Colmer was to be purged, what should the House do about the other three senior Mississippians who supported the maverick electors??

Capp, who by all accounts was contrary and contentious by nature, was a maverick politically.

Apart from his first actual feature, Who's That Knocking at My Door and Boxcar Bertha, a directing project given him by early independent maverick Roger Corman, this was Scorsese's first feature film of his own design.

Powell was noted for his oratorical skills, and for being a maverick.

The surprise Republican candidate was maverick businessman Wendell Willkie, a dark horse who crusaded against Roosevelt's perceived failure to end the Depression and his supposed eagerness for war.

Campaigning as a maverick within his own party, he defeated longtime Peronist leader Antonio Cafiero in the 1988 primary elections and was elected President on May 14, 1989, succeeding Raúl Alfonsín.

Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee won most of the primaries, but he was unpopular with President Truman and other prominent Democrats, who saw him as a party maverick who could not be trusted.

Also in 1847, another of Joule's presentations at the British Association in Oxford was attended by George Gabriel Stokes, Michael Faraday, and the precocious and maverick William Thomson, later to become Lord Kelvin, who had just been appointed professor of natural philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

Most controversially, he articulated, along with a few other maverick Bolsheviks, a philosophy he called " God-Building ", which sought to recapture the power of myth for the revolution and to create a religious atheism that placed collective humanity where God had been and was imbued with passion, wonderment, moral certainty, and the promise of deliverance from evil, suffering, and even death.

In the first edition of Kershaw's book The Nazi Dictatorship in 1985, Irving was called a " maverick " historian working outside the mainstream of the historical profession.

The only group that waged uninterrupted attrition against Arafat was the Fatah Revolutionary Council led by maverick hardliner Sabri al-Banna ( better known as Abu Nidal ), who was viewed by other Palestinian organizations as not so much a guerrilla as a pure criminal with no higher goal than deposing the moderates at the head of the PLO.

After WWII Plon was chosen as the site for King Alfred School, a remarkable secondary school for British Forces children under the inspired, maverick headmastership of Freddie Spencer Chapman with his hand-picked staff and on the site of what is now the little-changed non-commissioned officer school, and as such the town holds a place of affection with many former pupils across the world and the declining number of surviving teachers and their families.

However, press pundits had assumed that the candidacy was merely a vehicle to siphon support away from the campaign of Wendell Willkie, whose reputation as a maverick and staunch internationalist had earned him the hatred of many Republican Party regulars, especially in the midwest.

Although Douglas was innovative in his approach, and his open disregard for Rowling had earned him a reputation as a maverick, he remained within the mainstream of economic thinking in the parliamentary Labour Party.

* Samuel Augustus Maverick, firebrand Texas rancher and politician from whom the word " maverick " originated, was born in Pendleton.

A witty and articulate speaker, he was regarded by some as a scientific maverick who delighted in controversy.

By the 1910s, it looked as though Healy was to remain a maverick on the fringes of Irish nationalism.

A legendary maverick by reputation, Boyd was said to have stolen the computer time to do the millions of calculations necessary to prove the theory, but it became the world standard for the design of fighter planes.

Also based upon Kahn was Walter Matthau's maverick character Professor Groteschele in Fail-Safe, in which the U. S. President ( played by Henry Fonda ) tries to prevent a nuclear holocaust when a mechanical malfunction sends nuclear weapons heading toward Moscow.

Even as General Motors experienced revenue declines, Pontiac remained highly profitable under DeLorean, and despite his growing reputation as a corporate maverick, on February 15, 1969 he was again promoted.

Connors was acquiring a reputation as a maverick in 1972 when he refused to join the newly formed Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ), the union that was embraced by most male professional players, in order to play in and dominate a series of smaller tournaments organized by Bill Riordan, his manager and a clever promoter.

Garrison, Massachusetts born of Nova Scotian parentage, was by temperament and conviction a reformer.

Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

Later, when Watterson was creating names for the characters in his comic strip, he allegedly decided upon Calvin ( after the Protestant reformer John Calvin ) and Hobbes ( after the social philosopher Thomas Hobbes ) as a " tip of the hat " to the political science department at Kenyon.

Many phrases are characteristic of the German reformer Martin Bucer, or of the Italian Peter Martyr, ( who was staying with Cranmer at the time of the finalising of drafts ), or of his chaplain, Thomas Becon.

Erasmus Alberus ( c. 1500 – 1553 ), German humanist, reformer, and poet, was born in the village of Bruchenbrücken ( now part of Friedberg, Hesse ) about the year 1500.

The Protestant reformer Martin Luther denied it was the work of an apostle and termed it an " epistle of straw " as compared to some other books in the New Testament, not least because of the conflict he thought it raised with Paul on the doctrine of justification ( see below ).

Frederick Douglass ( born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895 ) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.

In 1916, he was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he had a reputation as a fiery and devoted reformer.

In the following year he went to Germany to be present as papal nuncio at the coronation of Emperor Charles V, and was also present at the Diet of Worms, where he headed the opposition to Martin Luther, advocating the most extreme measures to repress the doctrines of the reformer.

The edict against the reformer, which was finally adopted by the emperor and the diet, was drawn up and proposed by Aleandro.

Indeed, as a reformer his prestige was so strong that the reform wing of the Republican Party, called " Mugwumps ", largely bolted the GOP ticket and swung to his support in 1884.

Social reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote the first known argument for homosexual law reform in England around 1785, at a time when the legal penalty for buggery was death by hanging.

The chief reformer was Baron vom Stein ( 1757 – 1831 ), who was influenced by The Enlightenment, especially the free market ideas of Adam Smith.

On October 7, 2009, a bronze statue of Helen Keller was added to the National Statuary Hall Collection, as a replacement for the State of Alabama's former 1908 statue of the education reformer Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry.

Calvin had only intended to stay a single night, but William Farel, a fellow French reformer residing in the city, implored a most reluctant Calvin to stay and assist him in work of reforming the church there – it was his duty before God, Farel insisted.

William Farel was the reformer who convinced Calvin to stay in Geneva.

Calvin's authority was practically uncontested during his final years, and he enjoyed an international reputation as a reformer distinct from Martin Luther.

Johannes Agricola ( originally Schneider, then Schnitter ) ( April 20, 1494 – September 22, 1566 ) was a German Protestant reformer and humanist.

His mother, Jane Polk ( née Knox ), was a descendant of a brother of the Scottish religious reformer John Knox.

John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952 ) was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.

Julian was a man of unusually complex character: he was " the military commander, the theosophist, the social reformer, and the man of letters ".