(Encyclopedia) Woodcock, Leonard Freel, 1911–2000, American labor leader, b. Providence, R.I. In 1933 he went to work as a machine assembler at the Detroit Gear and Machine Co., where he joined a…
This table provides the name and state of the women serving in the 112th Congress, which began in 2011. There are 80 women in the House of Representatives and 17 women in the Senate. State…
Wedding Quotations Love, comfort, and honor Compiled by Elizabeth Olson "(Marriage) is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly,…
(Encyclopedia) Plenković, Andrej, 1970–, Croatian political leader. He studied law then joined (1994) the Croatian ministry of foreign affairs in the department for European integration, heading the…
(Encyclopedia) Bevin, ErnestBevin, Ernestbĕvˈən [key], 1881–1951, British labor leader and statesman. An orphan who earned his own living from childhood, he began a long career as a trade union…
(Encyclopedia) American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. It was formed (1916) out of the belief that the organizing of teachers should follow the model of a labor union,…
(Encyclopedia) United Arab Republic, political union (1958–61) of Egypt and Syria. The capital was Cairo. The two countries were merged (1958) into a single unit comprising the Southern (Egypt) and…
(Encyclopedia) Pullman strike, in U.S. history, an important labor dispute. On May 11, 1894, workers of the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago struck to protest wage cuts and the firing of union…
(Encyclopedia) South India, Church of, Indian Protestant church, formed in 1947 by the merger of Anglican dioceses in India, Myanmar, and Ceylon (Sri Lanka); the Methodist Church of South India; and…
(Encyclopedia) August Coup, attempted coup (Aug. 18–22, 1991) against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. On the eve of the signing ceremony for a new union treaty for the Union of Soviet Socialist…
