Darrow was one of the nation's first labor lawyers and represented prominent union leaders in legal disputes. He also was an accomplished criminal defense attorney. Later, Darrow garnered national attention when he defended a schoolteacher who taught evolution despite a state prohibition in a ...
As a senior investment banker in the early 1990s, he wrote the first survey by a Westerner since World War II of the energy, transport and related environmental issues of the eight energy-rich republics of the former Soviet Union in the Caucasus and Central Asia. (See European Bank for ...
Daniel Tobin led the Teamsters Union from 1907 to 1952. He guided its transformation from a dwindling set of locals representing horse-drawn wagon drivers to the nation's largest union. However, Tobin is best remembered today for a comment he made during an American Federation of Labor (AFL)...
signatory of the Nazi–Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 (also known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact), whose most important provisions were added in the form of a secret protocol that stipulated an invasion of Poland and partition of its territory between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. He...
She was the first ever woman to be elected the Prime Minister of Israel. She has a strong character known for her straightforwardness. She was ardent about everything she took part in. Meir was interested in the issues of women’s suffrage, trade unionism, and the Zionist movement. She ...
The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio. After Frances Willard took over leadership in 1879, the WCTU became one of the largest and most influential women’s groups of the 19th century by expanding it... ...
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Attempts to continue with a limited workforce and import labor and produce proved too expensive to maintain, and he and his family were eventually forced tomove away. Was it successful?He moved away and the word “boycott” was introduced in 1888, so yes!
In 1951, he led an effort to unionize professional baseball, football, and basketball players under the umbrella of the American Federation of Labor. Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois 52 Marty Meehan 12/29/1956 0 Martin Thomas Meehan (born December 30, 1956) is an educator, a politician, and a...
When Hitler continued his aggression, Chamberlain pledged Britain to defend Poland's independence if the latter were attacked, an alliance that brought his country into war when Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939. Chamberlain resigned the premiership on 10 May 1940 as the Allies ...