The firings and emergency supervision were in stark contrast to the action taken nearly a decade ago by the parent union when the head of the chapter, the New York City District Council of Carpenters and Joiners, Michael J. Forde, was last indicted, on bribery charges.
Najee Ali, head of the chapter, said director DuVernay contacted him and requested that the demonstration not take place.
When Rev. Oscar Tillman retired as head of the chapter in 2014, no one stepped up to run for president. .
Often the bishop was the titular head of the chapter only and was excluded from its decision-making processes, the chapter being led by the dean as its superior.
The writers from whom he took the texts at the heads of the chapters in The Time of My Life are some guide to the width and voracity of his reading: Yeats (his greatest literary hero), Defoe, Homer, Virginia Woolf, Byron, Hugh McDiarmid, Coleridge, Auden, CP Cavafy.
"Kevin told the mayor I was his biggest fan and that I was heading the New York chapter of the draft movement," Ms. Gallet said.
Lonegan, the former mayor of Bogota, N.J., spent the last seven years heading the New Jersey chapter of Americans for Prosperity, the Koch brothers-affiliated group.
In all these, the heading of each chapter gives the name of the speaker.
She recused herself from the stock narrative of the pastor's daughter who heads the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P.
J.C. Lawson, head of the Comair chapter of the Air Line Pilots Association.
