floral province
floral province (floral kingdom, floral realm, floral region) A major geographical grouping of plants, especially flowering plants, identified on the basis of floristic distinctiveness, particularly with regard to the degree of
endemism at family and generic level. Some authorities distinguish between kingdoms or realms, which are accorded the highest status, and provinces, which have lesser status and go to make up the kingdoms. Compare
FLORISTIC REGION.
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Virginia Tehas; Secretary to Labor's George Meany
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/7/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...secretary to labor leader George Meany from 1939 to 1980 who was...exhorted her to call him "George," but he remained "Mr. Meany." She said in a 1996 oral history for the George Meany Center for Labor Studies in...
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George Meany Memorial Archives to be dedicated. (NEWS ADVISORY)
PR Newswire; 8/13/1987; 616 words
; ...President Lane Kirkland will dedicate the new George Meany Memorial Archives and unveil a sculpture of Meany created by sculptor Robert Berks at 11...dedication ceremonies will be held at the George Meany Center for Labor Studies at 10000 New Hampshire...
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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
; ...of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy...more deserving rank and file. George Meany emerges, for example, as a...exclusionary, and undemocratic. George Meany's and Lane Kirkland's regimes...
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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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SENATORS MIKULSKI AND SARBANES ANNOUNCE NEARLY $3 MILLION FOR THE GEORGE MEANY CENTER IN SILVER SPRING
Transcript from: Capitol Hill Press Releases; 2/5/2001; 500 words
; ...ANNOUNCE NEARLY $3 MILLION FOR THE GEORGE MEANY CENTER IN SILVER SPRING WASHINGTON...Urban Development (HUD) to the George Meany Center in Silver Spring. This...and work force readiness, The George Meany Center is promoting individual...
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Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland and the tragedy of American labor.(Review)
Magazine article from: Race and Class; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland and the tragedy...Car Porters) from 1883 to 1926; Meany dominated the AFL and the joint...shoulder to shoulder with his mentor, George Meany, as one of the master builders...
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Rhonda Johnson receives Central Ohio AFL-CIO George Meany Award
Newspaper article from: Call & Post; 4/28/2005; 415 words
; ...Association, was honored with the Central Ohio AFL-CIO's George Meany Award given annually to a labor person for outstanding...More than 600 people attended this year's 46th annual George Meany Awards Banquet at Villa Milano, where Johnson was honored...
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LT. DORVAL NORWOOD TO RECEIVE GEORGE MEANY AWARD
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/17/2008; 388 words
; ...Champaign Fire Lieutenant Dorval Norwood will receive the George Meany Award from the AFL-CIO Executive Council with his...at the Champaign Fire Department for 14 years. The George Meany Award is a national recognition award approved by the...
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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
; ...our 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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Guns, butter, Leon Keyserling, the AFL-CIO, and the fate of full--employment economics.(Walter Philliop Reuther and George Meany's Conference on Economic Progress)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...15 JANUARY 1954, an intriguing proposal landed on the desks of both CIO President Walter Reuther and AFL President George Meany. Its author was Leon Keyserling, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and a longtime friend of organized...
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George Meany
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
George Meany George Meany (1894 -1980) was one of America's most powerful labor leaders during the 20th century. He was president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) from 1955 to 1979...
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Meany, George 1894-1980
Book article from: American Decades
MEANY, GEORGE 1894-1980 President of the afl-cio...1950s, the term organized labor meant George Meany, president of the American Federation...Democratic party. Source: Archie Robinson, George Meany and His Times (New York: Simon &...
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Meany, George
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Meany, George (1894–1980), labor leader.Born in New York City , George Meany in 1915 joined the United Association...Meany , 1972. Robert H. Zieger , George Meany: Labor's Organization Man, in Labor...
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George Herman Ruth Jr
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
George Herman Ruth Jr. George Herman Ruth, Jr. (1895-1948...celebrity, and most enduring legend. George Herman Ruth was born on Feb. 6, 1895...playing career is by sportswriter Thomas Meany, Babe Ruth: The Big Moments of the...
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Joseph Lane Kirkland
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Kirkland caught the eye of George Meany, the newly-elected...federation, Kirkland became Meany's heir-apparent...Kirkland like his boss Meany was an ardent cold war...Democratic Party, including George McGovern in the election...
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