Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight dictatorship if we go arm-in-arm with Stalin?" rhetorically asked American Federation of Labor Delegate Matthew Woll last week in a debate at Oslo, Norway. Occasion: meeting of the general council of the International Federation of Trade Unions (Iftu). Issue at stake; proposed merger of the 22,500,000 Russian trade unionists with the 17,000,000 Iftu members (mostly from democratic countries), which would give the U. S. S. R. the loudest voice in International Labor...
...Protestants and six out of seven Southern Methodist conferences had approved a plan of union drawn by a commission mission of which Bishop Ainsworth was a member (TIME, Aug. 25, 1935). Ailing at 66, contemplating retirement. Bishop Ainsworth urged Southern laymen to give their final, necessary approval to the merger. He also issued a sharp statement...
...week 25,000 delegates and visitors gathered in Birmingham for the 23rd quadrennial conference of the Southern church. With unification the first item on the agenda, many a delegate-including Senator Carter Glass-sounded off on the Negro issue. But they could not make the tar baby stick. The merger was adopted...
...Eastern's general manager, Eddie Rickenbacker has made it almost a one-man line. He well knew that this pleasant state would be unlikely to continue after a merger with TWA. He also knew that TWA is in anything but healthy financial shape. So he asked General Motors to stall for a few weeks while he hunted for other buyers. These he found in the Wall Street investment houses of Smith, Barney & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. When they agreed to put up $3,500,000 in cash, keep the line independent and give General Manager Rickenbacker complete operating...
...picture which completes the program stars Preston Foster and a beautiful inconnue named Whitney Bourne in another 20th Century-Fox picture, "Double Danger." The hero and heroine are highly respectable jewel thieves, and when the picture opens they are engaged in competition, although the ultimate merger does not come as a complete surprise. The strength of the picture lies in the ingenious methods by which priceless diamonds are successfully stolen and "high-jacked" with the utmost case. The film marks a departure from the commonplace and rounds out a bill that is entertaining, if not breath-taking...