Word: mergers
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...Church of Disciples of Christ (Campbellites) was formed by a onetime Baptist named Alexander Campbell, who rejected most Baptist tenets except baptism by immersion. Last week another Campbell - Rev. George A. of St. Louis' Union Avenue Christian Church - appeared before the Northern Baptist Convention with a plea for merger on the ground that theological differences between the two churches were now slight. The Baptists applauded, indicated they would name a committee on reunion. But the 1,500 delegates adjourned this week without doing anything about the matter. Other work not done : The convention shelved a Social Action report whose...
...Southern and Protestant Methodist churches (TIME, Aug. 26). This the Columbus Conference made its first order of business. Despite objections from liberals against segregating Negroes in a separate Methodist conference, the unification plan was ratified, 470-10-83. Hailed by some Methodists as nothing less than "dramatic," this merger now awaits the approval of Southerners and Methodist Protestants during the next two years...
Final source of conservative alarm is the Wisconsin Socialist Party's merger, effected last winter, with La Follette Progressives in a Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation, pledged to a ''production for use" program. By this deal Progressives are to support Socialists in Milwaukee; Socialists, who cast only about 10,000 votes outside Milwaukee County, will support a Federation slate composed chiefly of Progressives in State elections. First test of Federation effectiveness will come at Milwaukee's polls next week. For Mayor Hoan, who has made a more than local name for himself not only by his Milwaukee...
...instruments.* Moreover, Pratt & Whitney is not an independent concern but the principal asset of Niles-Bement-Pond Co. Last week Niles-Bement-Pond's principal asset was an island in flood waters, but that dampened not a whit the desire of Chairman Edward A. Deeds for a machinery merger. Expansive Chairman Deeds, who is also chairman of National Cash Register, proposed to unite Pratt & Whitney with General Machinery Corp., a $4,500,000 Hamilton, Ohio, maker of heavy tools and Diesel engines. General's management also thought a merger would be a good idea, and the two companies...
...Vocal Imagination, the Merger of Form and Content," will be the subject of Robert Frost's second lecture in the Charles Eliot Norton series to be delivered in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock this evening...