Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English graphophone company with a U. S. subsidiary, Columbia Phonograph Co., Inc. Last week it was reported that Columbia Graphophone, Ltd. would rid itself of Columbia Phonograph Co., probably by sale to some cinema company, to be able to merge with Gramophone. Negotiations for a Gramophone-Graphophone merger were begun in 1929, reputedly under the direction of Morgan Partner Thomas Cochran, but Radio Corp.'s ownership of Victor Talking Ma-chine make it desirable for the English Columbia Graphophone to get rid of its U. S. Columbia Phonograph lest the indirect consolidation of Columbia Phonograph with Victor Talking Machine...
Both Colyumist Brisbane and breezy, able John F. Sinclair of the New York World ignored the merger battle, focused upon the issue of whether any executive is worth a million a year. Said Mr. Brisbane, uncompromisingly: "A civilization that can afford to pay $250,000 a year salary for a few minutes talk on the radio can afford $1,000,000 for running a big steel concern." But Writer Sinclair quoted the late, great Nicholas F. Brady: "No employe of a well-run corporation can possibly be worth in salary over $100,000 a year...
...smart, new conference room of Lawyers Cotton, Franklin, Wright & Gordon at No. 63 Wall Street. There also sat Col. Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, broker, director of Bethlehem Steel Corp., and there, for the moment, reposed the hopes of Cyrus Stephen Eaton, still waging bitter war against the merger of Bethlehem Steel with Youngstown Sheet & Tube...
...deal is based on the extent and nature of stock-buying by promerger forces before the stockholders' meeting (TIME, April 21). More significant than the question of the $1,000,000 salary, this testimony will feature the opening of Mr. Eaton's latest suit to enjoin the merger, in Youngstown, next week...
...Northern Baptists, before they concluded their convention at Cleveland last week sent a notice to the Presbyterians at Cincinnati that they were praying for them. But little did the Baptists want immediate union with another denomination. Two years ago they and the Disciples of Christ made overtures towards merger. Last year the Disciples voted favorably. Last week the Baptists rejected them...