Word: merger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year by middle-class Premier Camille Chautemps, who reined in the New Deal and announced an official "pause" (TIME, Nov. 8 et ante) the huge bulk of Labor's Jouhaux has been less impressive. He enormously inflated his importance last week by appearing in Moscow to negotiate a merger between the 23,000,000 trade unionists in the Soviet Union and the 17,000,000 members of the International Federation of Trade Unions (Iftu...
...pleased last week to learn that by next summer they will probably belong to a new church, a plain Methodist Church. With 8,000,000 communicants, 20,000,000 constituents and 29,000 ministers, the new church will be the nation's largest Protestant body. Ratification of the merger of the three churches, proposed three summers ago (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935), requires assent of three-quarters of the conferences of each Methodist branch. Northern Methodists and the Methodist Protestants had ratified, and by last week in 30 of 42 Southern Methodist conferences, 90% of those voting favored the merger...
...Steel's funded debt, thereby reducing fixed charges some $30,000,000 annually and preparing the company to run the gauntlet of Depression. Second point on Myron Taylor's program was a vast modernization and expansion of plant, now nearing completion. Third point was the merger of two subsidiaries, Carnegie and Illinois Steels. Fourth was the revitalizing of Big Steel with young executive blood...
...evaluation of a student's ability along special lines. The means of testing this ability in the student who is not overly brilliant in one specific field, but who possesses definite talent in another, is by a combination of various methods of testing. This would involve a merger of such examinations as those conducted by the College Entrance Examination Board, but would not be limited to a specific subject. This general aspect of the examinations would permit the student who has definite knowledge and skill in one field to demonstrate it in contrast to his lack of ability in another...
...World-Herald had enjoyed a brighter financial history when Henry Doorly became its publisher-by-marriage when his father-in-law died in 1934. Spare, high-principled Senator Gilbert Monell Hitchcock was one of the group of bankers and politicians who founded the World in 1885. After its merger with the Herald in 1889 he slowly bought out his flagging partners and whipped banker-creditors who tried to dictate the paper's policy. Under Senator Hitchcock the World-Herald became an influential organ of liberal Democracy, with William Jennings Bryan its editor for two years before his first Presidential...