Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Authorized the state attorney general to break up any city newspaper monopoly-merger since 1945. Four Georgia mergers fitted this description, but the biggest, most obvious targets were the joint-owned Atlanta Constitution and Journal (TIME, March 27), both incisive critics of the Talmadge regime...
Last week the Kefauver Senate Crime Investigating Committee came to Detroit to investigate some of Zivian's other stockholders. The committee was checking on how gangsters get into legitimate business. Through a series of mergers, including his recent $13 million purchase of Eaton's Portsmouth Steel, Zivian has made his company one of the biggest U.S. producers of cold-rolled strip steel. But the merger the Kefauver Committee wanted to know more about was his 1944 deal with Cleveland's Reliance Steel Corp...
...month) pay proposed for a draftee during basic training, Marshall said: "I was thinking of the taxpayer. I want an enduring system, not one that's going to collapse of high cost." Missouri's Dewey Short, a man constitutionally opposed to universal military training, complained that the merger of the draft with U.M.T. looked like "a shotgun wedding" to him. "I did that," said George Marshall. "I'm glad you've the courage to admit it," said Short. Retorted a coldly indignant George Marshall: "I'm not admitting it. I'm telling...
Pooled Ideas. The new organization is called the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Nine years in the making, it is a merger of the most important Protestant and Eastern Orthodox agencies in the U.S. One of them, the Federal Council of Churches, was itself a federation of 27 religious bodies with 29 million members; the seven others were interdenominational agencies organized for specific purposes. Their names: the International Council of Religious Education, the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, the Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, the Home Missions Council of North America...
...United Church of Canada was formed in 1925 as a merger of the Methodists, Congregationalists, and some Presbyterians...