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Name: George Meany
Birth Date: August 16, 1894
Death Date: January 10, 1980
Place of Birth: New York, New York
Place of Death: Washington, DC, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: labor leader

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Biography of George Meany
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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. George Meany was born on Aug....


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George Meany Information
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George Meany (August 16, 1894 – January 10, 1980) was an American labor leader, who served as President of the American Federation of Labor from 1952 to 1955, and then, following its merger with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in the...


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The Washington Post
Virginia Tehas; Secretary to Labor's George Meany
11/07/2002: 667 words, approx. 2 pages
Virginia Tehas, 87, the ardently loyal secretary to labor leader George Meany from 1939 to 1980 who was described by a biographer as the AFL-CIO president's "administrative alter ego," died of a heart attack Nov. 3 at the Brooke Grove nursing home in Sandy...
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Business History Review
Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor
04/01/2000: 1,361 words, approx. 5 pages
Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor. By Paul Buhle. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999. ix + 315 pp. Index and notes. $18.00. ISBN 1583670033. Taking Care of Business is an unforgiving New...
 


 

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