Word: amster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peering from behind thick-lensed spectacles, Nathan Leonard Amster. a Rumanian-born director of Manhattan Railway Co. ("The El") and head of a stockholders' committee, arrived late at the annual meeting last week. Behind him trouped 30 angry stockholders armed with stacks of proxies. Though a meeting chairman had already been elected, Director Amster promptly accused him of trying to "railroad" the meeting, deposed him and elected Lionel F. Straus, a New York tractioneer and one of his henchmen, to the chair. While election tellers squabbled loudly over the legality of proxies. Insurgent Director Amster listened gleefully to stockholders...
...pound class: Crandon defeated Amster (C) by fall...
Negro Newspapers. Leading Negro weeklies are: Pittsburgh Courier (38,760) ; Baltimore Afro-American (24,300); Chicago Defender (110,000); Norfolk Journal & Guide (17,000) ; New York Amster dam News (26,458); New York Age (45,000); Boston Chronicle (not est.); Kansas City Call (16,661); St. Louis Argus (not est.) ; Atlanta Independent...
...pound class: Solano defeated L. Amster (C) by fall...
...they have defeated Tufts, Boston University, and the Army. Continuing their superiority in the heavyweight classes, C. D. Newhart '31 repeated his sensational victory over Murrel of the Army by defeating Baker of Columbia; in the 175 pound class. J. F. Solano '30 triumphed over Amster of Columbia in the 165 pound class, and Captain Warner won his match in the unlimited class...