Word: fusion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other circumstances under which a state's electoral vote can be but seldom is split are: 1) when two weak parties join forces and present a fusion ticket sharing the electoral votes according to a predetermined arrangement, 2) When enough voters go out of their way to "scratch" the names of individual electors...
...Fairbank '29 opened the debate by stating the question and presenting the problem of race prejudice as hampering our civilization. "Social intermixing is very desirable," declared Fairbank, "but the biological fusion of races only the future will determine. The negroes, just as the whites, have one civilization, the American civilization. There are no grounds for the prevalent race prejudice, based on economic conditions of past years, except failure to understand...
Popularly, consolidation and merger are synonymous with each other and with amalgamation, combination and absorption. They all represent the idea of fusion of property, ownership or management of business concerns...
Public Utilities. Although no official discussions have occurred, Consolidated Gas, Brooklyn Union Gas Co. and Brooklyn-Edison Co. Inc., public utilities in New York City are in advantageous position for fusion. Their joined assets would total almost $1,000,000,000. Among public utilities only American Telephone & Telegraph would be larger...
...fusion of the two African Methodist churches, which will take about five years to consummate, will bring under one organization approximately 1,500,000 members, 10,000 individual churches and property worth $36,000,000 in the U. S., Canada, Africa, South America, Mexico and West Indies...