Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remaining impediment to the union, more ethical than actual, is the merger negotiations which the Reformed Church in the U. S. has been conducting with the Evangelical Synod of North America. Those negotiations might be dropped, as similar Reformed dealings with the United Brethren in Christ have been dropped, or, what seemed more likely last week, the United Brethren and the Evangelicals might be assimilated into the Presbyterian-Reformed association...
...smartness that result from a most fortunate collaboration of casting, direction, staging, acting. A revolving stage facilitates the presentation of the 18 scenes. The smoothness with which each episode blends into the whole drama may be attributed to Director Shumlin. As the fleshy manufacturer, bluffing his way through a merger, Siegfried Rumann is convincingly brutal. He looks and performs not unlike Emil Jannings. He was an officer in the German army during the War, was wounded, acted in The Channel Road, has sung in Manhattan beer halls for a living. The stenographer is played by Hortense Alden (Lysistrata), an ingratiating...
...shipping tycoons wished it to be understood that this was by no means a merger of British lines such as has been insistently hinted ever since Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd cut out competitive sailings, elected unified boards of directors last spring. The British scheme is a "gentleman's agreement." The Britons frankly admitted that one of the most important objects was to fight German, French, Dutch competition in the North Atlantic. Whether this "gentleman's agreement" would grow into something considerably stronger, they refused to prophesy. Immediate results: next week only one ship...
...Continental Illinois Co. (investment subsidiary), last year was made assistant to the chairman of the Company, assistant to the chairman of the bank. His election was no surprise, leaves the three principal offices of Continental Illinois filled by old Continental men rather than Illinois Merchant executives.* Before the merger, Continental was considered an aggressively expanding bank, Illinois Merchants conservative, old-school. Banker Leavell is a quick friend-maker, "Jim" to acquaintances great and small. He lives in Lake Forest, commutes on the famed club car Deerpath with many another tycoon. He plays golf about once a year, likes riding, poker...
...After merger with Bank of Italy, Bank of America of California...