Word: mergered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representatives of these two bodies in the U. S. met last week in Atlantic City to ratify a proposed merger into the American Section of the Alliance of Reformed Churches Throughout the World Holding the Presbyterian System. They stood for almost 18,000 churches, 17,000 ministers, 3,000,000 members...
...general since the Reformation," the opportunity to soothe racial and national unrest. Dr. R. P. Mackay of Toronto urged the teaching of Christianity in the schools as a preventive of lawlessness, domestic infelicity and other social unrest. Dr. George Warren Richards of Lancaster, Pa., read the rules for the merger. All except Dr. George Summey of New Orleans agreed. He dissented because he felt that the benefits of the union were not clear, as the General Council was only an executive body while the Alliance was the Church itself. Proponents pointed out that the union will bring economies and efficiency...
...terms of the merger will be presented to the judicatories next June for final ratification...
...contentions. It is obvious that if only ten percent of a large issue of stock carries voting rights, a group of small minority holders can gain control of the whole thing, since all they need is 51 percent of ten percent. It was against this feature of the merger, as much as any other that the unfavorable decision was aimed. Professor Ripley, who was connected with the Commission in an advisory capacity, is thus supported in his endeavors by the ruling...
...discussing the sudden drop in the stock market Professor Cunningham said that he thought it due more to a natural reaction to the former high inflation than to the effect of the collapse of the Nickel Plate merger, that the bubble of speculation had already reached undue proportions and needed only the prick of some such shock as this to make it burst...