Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Calvinist teaching on the predestination of God's elect, and conceives of the church primarily as a social organism to further racial and economic justice. Stimson also charges that it provides theological justification for the scuttling of the democratic Presbyterian form of church government-a necessary prelude to merger with other denominations...
...Arthur went to Northwestern University Law School, where in 1930 he got a doctorate in jurisprudence and ranked No. 1 in his class. He got into the rugged world of labor law, in 1948 became general counsel for the C.I.O. and the United Steelworkers, helped plan the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger. On Capitol Hill he met John Kennedy; they became good friends. Later Goldberg became one of Kennedy's most trusted associates...
Today Protestant leaders are concerned about their fissiparous tendencies. Latin America already has more than 200 religious organizations, and the Brazilian Methodists are facing the threat of a schism. In Argentina and Ecuador, however, a number of Protestant churches have begun to explore the possibility of merger. Some Protestants fear also that their churches may be concentrating too exclusively on the minutiae of personal conduct; Brazilian Baptists, for example, had 10,000 converts last year but threw out 4,000 members for such sins as smoking and drinking. Protestantism thus may be missing the social implications in the message...
...essential reasons for the 3½-month-long New York City newspaper strike in 1962-63 and the essential reasons for current merger talks among several of those newspapers come to pretty much the same thing. The publishers need desperately to cut production costs through automation. But they are bedeviled by a powerful, medieval-minded printers' union local whose attitude towards automation ranks roughly with the intellectual attainments of a mystery cult. Last week the union, in its misguided zeal, very nearly ran one of the publishers out of business...
...decision on a merger could come as early as this summer. "They're really driving for a solution," says a top newspaper union official. "They've gone around the horn on all possibilities." Says Scripps-Howard President Jack R. Howard: "To this end, there will be more, rather than fewer talks...