Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing that Dr. Lang has been working on is a cause of much concern to his great brother-in-God, Pope Pius XI. The Archbishop and the Pope have never met, doubtless never will; but if they should, they might well - much as great rival bankers might discuss a merger each has been trying to perform before the other-discuss the matter of the old Orthodox Eastern Church and to which realm (Rome or England) it is to be united. In his encyclical of last fortnight, the Pope earnestly beckoned to his "su-preme chair of truth" all non-Roman...
...firmly identified than ever with roles like the ones which Mary Pickford used to play, the ingenuous heroine of sentimental comedy-drama. Privately, Miss Gaynor likes to read In Tune with the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine, has a freckled nose. Hell Divers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a successful merger of two well known types of cinema entertainment: aeronautical spectacle (like Hell's Angels, Dirigible) and man-to-man comedy (like What Price Glory, The Big Parade). It is also a loud advertisement for the U. S. Navy. One of the shortcomings of Hell Divers is the fact that spectacle...
Last week, after operating the Express for ten months at a loss, Publisher Block announced its sale to Hearst, and its merger with the latter's Evening Herald. "Because of the present business conditions." he said, "I find it necessary to give all my attention to my newspaper interests in the East...
...Gibson, then chairman of the executive committee of New York Trust Co., and a group of wealthy friends bought control of Manufacturers Trust Co. from Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. They paid $7,300,000. The deal brought an end to much gloomy talk about Manufacturers Trust after its proposed merger with Bank of United States had fallen through (TIME, Jan. 12). When J. P. Morgan one afternoon walked out of his little grey banking house at No. 23 Wall Street and dropped in to see Mr. Gibson in his new office at No. 55 Broad Street, Wall Street felt this...
...they were $94,000,000 less. The loss had been 31% and accompanying it were many rumors, one of which caused the bank to order the arrest of a customer's man (TIME, Sept. 7). The case was not pressed, but loose talk continued. Widely expected was a merger involving Chatham Phenix and another large bank, two or three being mentioned...