Word: merger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only a common school education; then studied law. He made his fortune?he is a millionaire?as a corporation lawyer. But he is also a " trust buster." He was counsel for the Government in dissolution suits against the Standard Oil Co., the Paper Trust, the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger. He has been President of the American Bar Association...
...retiring Moderator, William E. Barton of Oak Park, Ill., opened the subject of Church union. He began by rejecting overtures from the Episcopalians. Episcopalian bishops will not admit the validity of Congregational consecration or ordination of ministers, but they offer to reordain them if a merger can thereby be effected. Said Dr. Barton: "I would consider it equally a compliment if it were suggested to me that my children would appear to him [i.e., an Episcopalian bishop] more nearly legitimate if I would consent at this time to a supplemental marriage at the hands of a justice of the peace...
...100th birthday. And at that time the Unitarian churches of the country are expected to form themselves into a more solidly compact organization than they have hitherto thought necessary. Last week the Unitarian General Conference met in New Haven and voted to merge with the American Unitarian Association. This merger, if brought about in 1925, will close a period of purely congregational organization...
...treat the situation wisely." From Paris, Ernest P. Bicknell, head of the American delegation that was supposed to attend the Geneva conference, sent Dr. de Page of the Belgian delegation the following telegram : "The American delegates; have no intention of going to Geneva unless the report of the merger negotiations is repudiated by the conference...
...bold and successful policy pursued by the Anaconda Copper Co. in taking over Chile Copper has obviously been watched closely and admiringly by other producers and refiners of the red metal. Now the Calumet and Hecla Copper Mining Co. has initiated a merger of its own, which has been agreed upon by the officers of four smaller concerns whose absorption is planned. The new company will have an authorized capital of 2,500,000 shares of $25 each, of which 2,005,502 shares will be distributed to stockholders of the five merging companies. The four smaller concerns are Ahmeek...