Word: merger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flagship of the British merchant fleet after the Cunard White Star merger last year was neither the huge (56,000 tons) Majestic nor the fast (28 knots) Mauretania, nor the proud Berengaria. Instead the red-and-gold burgee of the combined fleet's commodore flew from the main truck of a little (20,000 tons) old (1921) ship called Samaria. Only reason that vessel flew the commodore's flag was because Commodore Robert G. Malin, a quiet man, liked little ships better than big ones, liked the Samaria best...
...Exeter, Cherington has been a Dean's List student through most of his college career; he has won several academic awards including the present holding of a Lincoln Scholarship, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. One of the founders and editors of the Critic, since its merger with the Advocate he has also been on the heard of the latter publication...
What will happen to the Metropolitan next season no one yet knows. This winter's performances are bound to eat up the small guarantee fund raised last spring. The long-discussed merger with the Philharmonic-Symphony has been definitely dropped (TIME, Dec. 24). Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath and his associates will soon have to meet and decide upon a successor for Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza...
...musical organizations. But, fact is, both the Philharmonic and the Metropolitan have been in peril of their lives, dependent on public donations which they cannot expect to be forever forthcoming. Many complained because the $500,000 raised last spring was for the Philharmonic and the Philharmonic alone. But the merger's promoters hastily promised that this money would be used only for the orchestra and its concerts...
...Hall and the fitness of the Opera House for orchestra concerts. Carnegie depends on the Philharmonic rental to survive as a concert hall. And the city needs Carnegie for the Boston and Philadelphia orchestra concerts as well as for individual musicians who draw big crowds. Toscanini felt that the merger offered no artistic profit to either organization, objected specifically to having concerts at the old Metropolitan where the acoustics are suitable only for opera. New Yorkers accepted his word as gospel although he begged the Orchestra's board members not to let "this honest opinion carry any weight...