The Roots of Decline

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Minchin
Keyword(s):  
Work Force ◽  
Entire Period ◽  
Leadership Characteristics ◽  
Executive Council ◽  
New Members ◽  
Lyndon Johnson ◽  
Considerable Detail ◽  
Left Lane

This chapter surveys the AFL-CIO’s history between 1955, when it was founded, and 1979, when Lane Kirkland replaced George Meany as president. For this entire period, George Meany served as president. The chapter focuses on the AFL-CIO’s power during this period, particularly in enacting a great deal of progressive legislation during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Meany’s ideas – such as his anti-communism and strong leadership characteristics –are also covered. The chapter surveys the Meany era in considerable detail, emphasizing that he left Lane Kirkland a troubled legacy, especially as he was slow to recognize the ‘’roots of decline” and organize new members. Meany was particularly slow to respond to the entry of women into the American work force, and the AFL-CIO’s Executive Council remained all-male throughout his presidency.

Report of the Honorary Director for 1986

Africa ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-107
Author(s):  
I. M. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
African Studies ◽  
Executive Council ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
New Members ◽  
German Republic ◽  
International Role ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Public Lecture

The Institute's fifty-ninth Executive Council meeting took place at the African Studies Centre of the University of Bayreuth in the Federal German Republic in July 1986 following the Centre's annual symposium on the theme of ‘Identity in Africa’. Professor Jacob Ade Ajayi, myself, and Professors Mohamed Omer Beshir and John Paden gave papers at the symposium and Professor Michael Crowder delivered a special public lecture on the current crisis in African Studies (see p. 109). We are very grateful to Professor Helmut Ruppert, Director of Africanistics at Bayreuth, and to our Executive Council member, Professor Franz Rottland, and to Professor and Mrs Christopher Winter and all their colleagues for inviting us to meet at Bayreuth in this very productive fashion and in such congenial company. The meeting served to highlight the continuing international role of the Institute. Professors Martin Njeuma (Cameroon) and Toshinao Yoneyama (Japan) were attending Executive Council for the first time. The following new members were elected to Council: Professor AH Mazrui (Vice-Chairman), Professor Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (Consultative Director), Professor J. M. Schoffeleers, Professor Abdoulaye Bara Diop and Dr Steven Moyo. While welcoming Professor Coquery-Vidrovitch as incoming French Consultative Director, warm tribute was paid to her retiring predecessor, Professor Pierre Alexandre, who had for so many years sustained French support for the Institute. The Institute was extremely fortunate to have enjoyed the advice and guidance of a colleague of such distinction and wide-ranging expertise.

Meetings of The Executive Council

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1365-1365
Author(s):  
Percy W. Long
Keyword(s):  
Executive Council ◽  
Plaza Hotel

The Executive Council met in Parlor I of the Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 30, 1935, at 1:00 p.m., with all the officers, the Managing Trustees, and Professors Craig, Lancaster, Nitze, Tatlock, Taylor, and Walz present. The following actions were taken:

High-resolution observations of metastable γ’ precipitation in Al-15at.%Ag

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 1004-1005
Author(s):  
N. V. Larcher ◽  
I. G. Solorzano
Keyword(s):  
Discontinuous Precipitation ◽  
Equilibrium Phase ◽  
Quantitative Description ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Α Phase ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Aging Sequence ◽  
Matrix Precipitation ◽  
Considerable Detail ◽  
Kinetics Of

It is currently well established that, for an Al-Ag alloy quenched from the α phase and aged within the metastable solvus, the aging sequence is: supersaturated α → GP zones → γ’ → γ (Ag2Al). While GP zones and plate-shaped γ’ are metastable phases, continuously distributed in the matrix, formation of the equilibrium phase γ takes place at grain boundaries by discontinuous precipitation (DP). The crystal structure of both γ’ and γ is hep with the following orientation relationship with respect to the fee α matrix: {0001}γ′,γ // {111}α, <1120>γ′,γ, // <110>α.The mechanisms and kinetics of continuous matrix precipitation (CMP) in dilute Al-Ag alloys have been studied in considerable detail. The quantitative description of DP kinetics, however, has received less attention. The present contribution reports the microstructural evolution resulting from aging an Al-Ag alloy with Ag content higher than those previously reported in the literature, focusing the observations of γ' plate-shaped metastable precipitates.

The History and Organization of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA)

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard P. J. Freeman ◽  
Sabine Steyaert
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Support ◽  
European Federation ◽  
Executive Council ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Professional Psychologists

In 1981, the European Federation of Professional Psychologists’ Associations (EFPPA) was formed with 13 member associations (one per country) and no centralized administrative support. Thirty years later, EFPPA has become EFPA with 35 member associations representing about 300,000 psychologists across Europe. EFPA is now based in offices in the center of Brussels, the administrative heart of Europe, with a Director and staff who support the work of the EFPA Executive Council and the various Standing Committees, Task Forces, and Working Groups. In this article, the development of EFPA and the challenges faced, and mostly overcome, are outlined.

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