Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of the many unfounded and conflicting rumors, your article on the proposal of merger of Northwestern and the University of Chicago is good reporting. A few errors, however; have crept in. The most serious is the statement that "last year the University of Chicago hospitals and clinics lost $831,000." The truth is they closed the year with no deficit whatever-a remarkable showing. The statement that under the proposed merger "Chicago would turn over its practical work to Presbyterian Hospital and, taking over Northwestern's ablest men, would concentrate on research" is also unfounded. The proposal...
...deluged the provincial Press with his own brand of propaganda. Since ousting him from the Cabinet last June the Hitler Government has regarded Dr. Hugenberg as a potential enemy, suspected him of favoring a restoration of the Hohenzollerns. Yet one surprising thing about last week's merger was that the new organization, which will be officially a private corporation called the German News Bureau, was permitted to select as its head the man who has run T. U. since Hugenberg took it over in 1921, blond, heavyset, affable Otto Mejer. Chosen on his merits as a newsgathering executive, Herr...
...Conference, not action, has characterized the merger proceedings," reported Maroon's Editor Barden, adding...
Nevertheless, the annoyance provoked by Newsman Evans indicated that the merger had progressed and that, probably, only the Tribune's kind of noise was likely to prevent it. Typical Tribune scare: that the merger would enable the University of Chicago to avoid $300,000 of taxes by getting under Northwestern's liberal tax-free charter...
...merger between the University of Chicago, on Chicago's South Side, and Northwestern, on the North Side and farther north in Evanston, would bring under single control some 20,000 students. Undergraduate work would continue on both campuses. Some post-graduate departments would consolidate to the south, some to the north. Economy is a point in the merger plans but not so big a point as certain education policies. Particularly involved is the question of medicine. Last year the University of Chicago hospitals and clinics lost $831,000. Under the merger, Chicago would turn over its practical work...