New-York Historical Society
New-York Historical Society New York City. Founded in 1804, the society is a repository of art, artifacts, and literature relating to American, especially New York, history. Among its celebrated permanent collections are 435 watercolors by John James Audubon for his engraved folio volumes, The Birds of America, and American paintings from colonial times through the 19th cent. The society's educational programs include changing exhibitions of American cultural subjects, lectures by noted scholars and historians, and a large library facility providing extensive material to scholars on early America.
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TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS: SAMUEL GOMPERS, GEORGE MEANY, LANE KIRKLAND, AND THE TRAGEDY OF AMERICAN LABOR.(Review)
Magazine article from: Labour & Industry; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS: SAMUEL GOMPERS, GEORGE MEANY, LANE KIRKLAND, AND THE TRAGEDY OF AMERICAN LABOR...Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Samuel Gompers, George Meany, and Lane Kirkland. For reasons that are not entirely...
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Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor
Magazine article from: Business History Review; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy...Gompers, Meany, and Kirkland were abject failures...from time to time. Samuel Gompers' AFL was...Meany's and Lane Kirkland's regimes also had...
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Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor.(Review)
Magazine article from: Monthly Review; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...national labor federations. What he finds is that the "traditions of all the dead generations [Samuel Gompers, George Meany, and Lane Kirkland]" do indeed "weigh like a nightmare" on Sweeney, Trumka, and Chavez-Thompson. Yet the first...
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Kirkland Hall buys Hootstein. (Kirkland Hall Inc., Samuel Hootstein and Sons Inc., women's suit manufacturers)
Magazine article from: WWD; 2/28/1989; 541 words
; KIRKLAND HALL BUYS HOOTSTEIN NEW YORK -- Kirkland Hall, Inc., a suit...manufacturer, has acquired Samuel Hootstein & Sons...Kirkland Hall. Joining Kirkland Hall from Hootstein...son of the founder, Samuel, and Allan Driefuss...
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Key Union Leaders Want Kirkland to Leave; Longtime AFL-CIO Chief Is Viewed as Unable to Meet Labor's New Needs
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/28/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...most visible national leader. Kirkland declined to be interviewed for...have been no expressions to Kirkland or those at the AFL- CIO for...out since it was founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886. Kirkland is only the fourth president...
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Key Union Bosses Push For Ouster of Kirkland
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/29/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...most visible national leader. Kirkland declined to be interviewed...have been no expressions to Kirkland or those at the AFL-CIO for...out since it was founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886. Kirkland is only the fourth president...
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Lane Kirkland.(labor leader)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 8/28/1999; 700+ words
; ...were thinking when Lane Kirkland addressed a union of textile...later in the same year, Mr Kirkland lost the most secure job...1880s by the redoubtable Samuel Gompers, a British- born cigar maker. Mr Kirkland is the only one of them...
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Letter From Israel: Kirkland's Long View
Newspaper article from: Forward; 4/28/2000; 700+ words
; ...widow, Irena. In Poland, Kirkland is remembered for the critical...remarks at the gathering, Irena Kirkland noted that the AFL-CIO...traced back to 1915, when Samuel Gompers first got the federation...Gompers, as for George Meany and Kirkland after him, Zionism was a cause...
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Kirkland Expected to Step Down; Coalition Threatened Union Election Defeat
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/10/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...concluded earlier this year that Kirkland had to step down in favor of...challenges of the future. Kirkland, they argue, is unable to...late 1800s and the days of Samuel Gompers. The insurgents are...staunch public supporter of Kirkland, sent a letter to members...
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Lane Kirkland, internationalist. (AFL-CIO leader opposes the North American Free Trade Agreement) (American Survey) (Column)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 11/20/1993; 700+ words
; ...the evident strength of Mr Kirkland's feeling on NAFTA is not...feelings run away with you. Mr Kirkland is only the fourth in a line...through Meany, William Green and Samuel Gompers--to the foundation...unions would linger. But Mr Kirkland presumably calculated that...
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Samuel Kirkland
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Samuel Kirkland Samuel Kirkland (1741-1808), American missionary, helped keep the Oneida Indians loyal to the colonists during the Revolutionary War. Samuel Kirkland was born Dec. 1, 1741. His father, a graduate of Yale, was a minister...
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Kirkland, Caroline Stansbury
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Kirkland, Caroline Stansbury (1801–...was born in New York City. She married Samuel Kirkland, with him conducted a seminary at Geneva...as Our New Home in the West. Mrs. Kirkland's later works on the frontier, Forest...
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Great Awakening
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...reached the South with the preaching (1748-59) of Samuel Davies among the Presbyterians of Virginia, with the...such men as David Brainerd , Eleazar Wheelock , and Samuel Kirkland ; in the first movement of importance against slavery...
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Iroquois Confederacy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...hostility of the Iroquois toward the French was caused by Samuel Champlain when in 1609 he accompanied a Huron war party...the tribes, except the Oneida, joined the British. Samuel Kirkland , a Protestant missionary, was largely responsible...
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Joseph Brant
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Revolution, Brant used his influence to persuade the Iroquois to join the British side and to discredit the Reverend Samuel Kirkland, a missionary who had succeeded in persuading the Oneida and Tuscarora (tribes in the Iroquois Confederacy) to...
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