Word: fights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting between Kirby and Sonnabend went well enough. Kirby offered Sonnabend a seat on Alleghany's nine-man board; Sonnabend said he would accept. But hardly had the two parted when the deal exploded. Angry telegrams flew back and forth, and words began to fly about a proxy fight for control of Alleghany at the annual meeting next...
What touched off the fight was some behind-the-scenes maneuvering by Alleghany's Executive Vice President David Wallace, 35, who also acts as trustee to Bob Young's estate and adviser to his widow. Wallace had advised Mrs. Young to support any future Sonnabend bid for control. When Kirby got wind of this piece of advice, the executive committee fired Wallace. Snapped Sonnabend ominously: "An act of bad faith. A violation of a gentleman's agreement to keep Wallace. I decline to serve on the board as presently constituted...
...week's end, Alleghany Chairman Kirby was trying to make up his mind whether to fight to keep control or not. He owns 524,000 shares of Alleghany common, about 10%, also holds 148,000 shares of 6% convertible preferred and warrants for another 226,440 shares of common. If he converts his preferred and exercises his warrants, he will have close to 1,450,000 shares of common to Sonnabend's 700,000 shares-and the common elects five of the nine directors...
...barony's dissolution began when the New Englanders imported Chinese and Japanese to work as field hands. Neither group stayed in the fields. The industrious Chinese moved into real estate, the Japanese into politics. After World War II, the pineapple workers won their fight for a union, and the Democratic Party, with a membership of Orientals and newcomer Caucasians, won a strong position in island government...
...sole active member of the ancient brotherhood of the troubadours." Back in Springfield, townspeople snickered; later he was to say, "People thought I fought for fame, but I only fought my way through from being the town fool and the family idiot.'' It was a long fight; Lindsay was 33 when Harriet Monroe printed General Booth (with its parenthetical instructions for bass drum, banjo and flute accompaniment) in her Poetry Magazine...