Word: unites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operative Marketing. The boldest step toward cooperative marketing that has yet been taken was made by five of the largest grain elevator companies of the Middle West.* They banded themselves together into a great unit, the Grain Marketing Company, with capital stock of $51,000,000. Not more than $26,000,000 of this will be outstanding at one time, however. First, to the public is to be sold $25,000,000 of preferred stock. Then gradually an equal amount of preferred stock and a million dollars' worth of common stock are to be sold to bona fide grain...
...compared with 48 states and 6 "territories"? at Manhattan. Moreover, at Manhattan, reckoning was prolonged, since many states had more delegates than votes; so many delegates had only fractional votes.? The entire Georgia delegation had only a half vote for each delegate; fortunately, it voted in unit. Missouri had some delegates with whole votes, some with two-thirds, some with half, some with one-third of a vote. Connecticut even had tenths...
...That by two-thirds vote the Convention adopt a resolution to eliminate the lowest candidate at each ballot until two were left, ballot on these for five ballots, then, abolishing the unit rule, choose a candidate by a majority vote; defeated overwhelmingly by acclamation...
Even the bosses could do nothing to solve the tangle, for the time being at least. Every candidate except McAdoo agreed to free his delegates of all pledges and instructions. McAdoo was unwilling. He counterproposed that the unit rule should be suspended and nomination made by majority. To this the others refused to agree. When the Convention reopened the two proposals were read, but no attempt was made to act on them. Once more the balloting commenced, once more the deadlock...
Inclusion within the merit system of first, second, third class post offices, and prohibition-enforcement unit...