EVB2925960: Pearl Mesta, an American socialite and political hostess, c. 1940. At age 27 Pearl married industrialist George Mesta, and at age 36 she was widowed with million fortune. She was portrayed by Ethel Merman in the 1950 Irving Berlin Broadway musical comedy and the 1953 film, CALL ME MADAME / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925984: AFL president George Meany addressed Convention of the United Auto Workers-CIO. March 29, 1955. UAW President Walter Reuther is at right. The top item on Meany's 1955 agenda was merging the AFL with the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations). He achieved this in Dec. 1955 / Bridgeman Images