Walter Reuther, leader of the industrial union faction of the AFL-CIO, says another two years of this squabbling will be disastrous for all American labor.

The merger is a result of 20 years of effort put forth by both the AFL and CIO presidents, George Meany and Walter Reuther.

* 1907 – Walter Reuther, American labor union leader, founded United Auto Workers ( d. 1970 )

* Industrial Workers of the World Collection predominantly, 1950s-1970s at the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs.

Palme wrote his senior honor thesis on the United Auto Workers union, led at the time by Walter Reuther.

Eventually, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther and black civil rights leaders ( including Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King, and Bayard Rustin ) worked out a compromise with MFDP leaders: the MFDP would receive two non-voting seats on the floor of the Convention ; the regular Mississippi delegation would be required to pledge to support the party ticket ; and no future Democratic convention would accept a delegation chosen by a discriminatory poll.

Henry Ford helped build a large truck and tractor plant ( GAZ ) in the late 1920s, sending along engineers and mechanics, including future labour leader Walter Reuther.

The strike came to an end after an agreement was reached between company president Sherwood H. Egbert and Walter P. Reuther, president of the UAW.

Speakers included all six civil-rights leaders of the so called, " Big Six "; Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish religious leaders ; and labor leader Walter Reuther.

After 1945 Thomas sought to make the non-Communist left the vanguard of social reform, in collaboration with labor leaders like Walter Reuther.

The challenge of rooting out Communists from labor unions and the Democratic party was successfully undertaken by liberals, such as Walter Reuther of the autoworkers union and Ronald Reagan of the Screen Actors Guild ( Reagan was a liberal Democrat at the time ).

Walter Philip Reuther ( September 1, 1907 – May 9, 1970 ) was an American labor union leader, who made the United Automobile Workers a major force not only in the auto industry but also in the Democratic Party in the mid 20th century.

Walter Reuther ( right ) conferring with President Truman in the Oval Office, 1952

Walter Reuther ( second from right ) at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963

Walter Reuther appears in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

50px I-696 In Metro Detroit is named the Walter P. Reuther Freeway.

Walter Reuther ( 1993 )

Infighting in the UAW: The 1946 Election and the Ascendancy of Walter Reuther ( 1994 )

The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor ( 1995 )

The Wonderful Life and Strange Death of Walter Reuther.

Walter P. Reuther: Selected Papers ( 1961 )

* Walter Reuther interviewed by Mike Wallace on The Mike Wallace Interview January 25, 1958

* The Reuther 100 Web site was established with IMLS grant money to commemorate the life of Walter P. Reuther on what would have been his 100th birthday.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get.

C & O president Walter J. Tuohy was summoned back for cross-examination by New York Central attorneys before examiner John Bradford who is hearing the complex case.

Walter was giving me checks for my pay, the household bills.

Or what was it that, before Via, Sonny, Walter and all, I began almost to dance with shuddering and cry out, `` I knew she'd do it!!

It was presented by early 20th century anthropologists, including Frank Hamilton Cushing, J. Walter Fewkes and Alfred V. Kidder.

* 1919 – The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.

It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott.

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Summoned before the imperial court of justice, Albert refused to appear and was proscribed, while the Order elected a new Grand Master, Walter von Cronberg, who received Prussia as a fief at the imperial Diet of Augsburg.

Walter Goffart believes it is probable that in this narrative Paul was making use of an oral tradition, and is sceptical that it can be dismissed as merely a typical topos of an epic poem.

The tale is treated with scepticism by Walter Goffart, who observes that it conflicts with the Origo Gentis Langobardorum, where she was captured only after the death of her father.

Canberra is a planned city that was originally designed by Walter Burley Griffin, a major 20th century American architect.

The screenplay was by Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews, C. Gardner Sullivan, with uncredited work by Walter Anthony and Milestone.

Another house guest was Walter Hayes, vice-President of Ford of Europe.

The Violin Concerto was dedicated " to the memory of an Angel ", Manon Gropius, the deceased daughter of architect Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler.

Arbroath Abbey was the basis for the description of the ruined monastery of St Ruth in Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary.

The Black Sea deluge theory ( published in 1997 by William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University ) contends that the Bosphorus was formed about 5600 BC when the rising waters of the Mediterranean / Sea of Marmara breached through to the Black Sea, which at the time ( according to the theory ) was a low-lying body of fresh water.

The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

Behrens was a founding member of the Werkbund, and both Walter Gropius and Adolf Meier worked for him in this period.

The school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 as a merger of the Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts and the Weimar Academy of Fine Art.