Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A.F.L. President William Green droned out a statement. The U.L.P.C., he said, was a temporary arrangement that had served its purpose. Now union committees should get to talking about what the A.F.L. had long wanted-actual merger. The C.I.O., which prefers the U.L.P.C. kind of unity, argued that the committee's usefulness was far from exhausted, demanded further explanations. But the A.F.L., for the moment at least, had nothing further to say about its decision to break up housekeeping. A.F.L. Vice President William C. Doherty delivered the official reply: "We've come to bury Caesar, not to discuss...
...years, Selfridge drew a salary and expense account of some $1,200,000 a year until he ran into financial trouble. A merger with another department store (Whiteley's) cost Selfridge's about $3,600,000; depression and an ill-timed $21,000,000 expansion program cost the store still more...
...their agenda; they voted to meet next year in Chicago at the same time as the Disciples of Christ (membership: 1,716,000). Business meetings of the two conventions will be separate, but some spiritual and social activities will be carried out jointly. "I do not foresee any immediate merger," said the Baptists' secretary, Dr. Reuben E. Nelson of New York, "but the Baptists and Disciples are more alike than any two other Protestant groups ... We are going to get to know each other better. You can't tell what better acquaintanceship will bring...
...year after Red Chinese troops first marched into the outlying reaches of Tibet, the theocratic government of Lhasa had surrendered. In a treaty negotiated at Peking, the Tibetans accepted 1) status as an "autonomous" province under the sovereignty of Red China; 2) occupation by a Red Chinese garrison; 3) merger of all Tibetan forces into Red China's army; 4) direction of Tibetan foreign affairs by Red China...
...whole: the Northern Presbyterians officially call themselves the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (membership: about 2,500,000); the Southern Presbyterians are known as the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (membership: about 673,000); the United Presbyterian Church (membership: about 250,000) was formed in 1858 by a merger of two other Presbyterian bodies...