Word: hecklers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remington Rand's annual stockholders' meeting last year, Professional Heckler Lewis D. Gilbert had a question for the chair: Why did Board Chairman Douglas MacArthur own no stock in the company? That, the Old Soldier brusquely replied, was none of Gilbert's business (TIME, Aug. 10). In Buffalo last week, as Remington Rand stockholders met again, there was a marked improvement in MacArthur-Gilbert relations. Ex-Corporal Gilbert was pleased to note that the five-star general had since bought 800 shares of company stock, a transaction that had been duly recorded by the Securities and Exchange...
...same with marriage. When a marriage is dead, it should be buried." A moment later, someone from the crowd set him talking about old-age pensions. It is a sign of a civilized country, he said, that it looks after its old people. A heckler interrupted. "Why don't you talk religion instead of politics?'' he shouted...
...life and example of Wesley himself, who preached his way over some 225,000 miles in 50 years to bring religion back to the people he thought the Church of England had forgotten. Much of John Wesley's journeying was uphill. Gangs of bullies dogged his steps. A heckler's stone gashed a scar upon his brow. But afoot and on horseback, he kept on going, a short little man in a plain black coat, whose hair was silken white most of his adult life. And his labors helped establish a world church of 14½ million members...
...Finney, who came from a long line of Anglican parsons, learned about horses as a groom and stable boy. He is known for his ability to produce furlongs of equine statistics at the drop of a crop. But his technique is not all smooth talk. At one auction, a heckler who was scornful of the horses up for sale asked Finney: "When are you going to start the dog race?" Snapped Finney: "Just as soon as you can get in shape...
...greater," and Macy's hoped to get a refund of some $6,000,000 from the Government for overpaid taxes. Another stockholder complained that Macy's real trouble was "Harvarditis-too many Harvard men."* Straus might well look over his staff with an eye to "housecleaning." Added Heckler Gilbert: "If there is another cut in the dividend, the stockholders have the right to ask that Macy's executives take a cut in salaries themselves...