Word: hecklers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DiMaggio, a glowing report on the earnings and divi-lend records of his companies. Wolfson aid that he would propose a three-for-one tock split and a 40? quarterly dividend hat would bring stockholders $1.80 more han the present $3 rate. An uproar started when Lewis Gilbert, perennial heckler at many a stockholder meeting, jumped up shouting to be heard. Gilbert wanted o know how Wolfson could tell the press ast October that he controlled some 500,000 shares, when he claimed only 294,285 shares in his proxy statement. The SEC, replied Wolfson, would not let him list...
...what happened. After the broadcast, they said, Nixon told the audience that in 200 public appearances no one before Heavey had been rude enough to heckle while Nixon was on the air. The Secret Service men, charged by law with protecting the Vice President, had not stepped in until Heckler Heavey had picked up a used flashbulb and made a threatening gesture with it. At that point, Nixon's witnesses say, a posse of Secret Service men escorted Heavey outside, where he tripped on some television wires and fell...
Only four months ago he was an outsider, disliked as an intellectual and a heckler, attacked by bigots as a Jew and by fellow politicians for his unabashed ambition. Last week, a phenomenon of 47, he was able...
...first time in the history of the French Parliament that a treaty has been rejected without the author [ex-Premier René Pleven] or the signer [Robert Schuman] of the treaty having been heard." Then EDC supporters struck up the Marseillaise. "Why not Deutschland über Alles?" shouted a heckler...
...committee, and another membership meeting was scheduled. When the rank-and-file turned out to vote on the wage cut last week, their changed temper was obvious. Warned one opponent: "This is a deal you're going to have to live with for a long time." Replied a heckler: "At least we'll be living...