Word: merger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the NCC's membership equally divided over the merger, President William C. Brady '57, twice cast the deciding ballot. The two presidents, Brady and Kenneth E. Thompson '57 of the HCL, had drawn up the agreement which would merge the two groups...
During a discussion period, the minority, quite vocal all evening, said that the HCL represented a "symbol" which the University resented, and that a merger with that group would do little to enhance the NCC's reputation...
...politics went to work and in a twinkling rearranged the whole stage. They consolidated Japan's two big feuding conservative parties, the Liberals and the Democrats, into one gigantic party, the Liberal-Democrats, which will control 300 of 467 seats in the Diet's Lower House. The merger marks the beginning of the end for Ichiro Hatoyama, who as a candidate was a great vote getter, but in office has been a weak, indecisive and garrulous Prime Minister. Hatoyama will stay in office until next April, but with a new Cabinet to be divided almost equally between Democrats...
...Parties. Since the two parties have long shared a firm conservatism at home and a generally anti-Communist leaning in foreign affairs, the merger should make conservative policy more stable, as well as nullify the recent parliamentary threat posed by the merger of the left-and right-wing Socialists (who together now have 154 seats). One immediate result: a hardening of Japan's demands for return of war prisoners and seized territory in the current negotiations for a Russo-Japanese peace settlement. A second major result: the beginning of a two-party system in Japan...
...TRUCK MERGER is in the works between White Motor and Diamond T, two of the oldest firms in the business. White Motor will buy Diamond T's assets for about $9,000,000 ($23 a share v. current market price of $21) for the 421,259 shares outstanding, combine research and engineering facilities...