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Such tactics were heavily criticized by Washington Attorney Alfons Landa, a Penn-Texas shareholder and expert proxy fighter (TIME, Dec. 17). He heads a Penn-Texas "protective committee," financed with $80,000 from Robert Morse Jr., which was formed to start a backfire and perhaps oust Silberstein from his own company. Landa charged that Silberstein himself has shared secretly in huge, illegal profits from his stock deals, is putting Penn-Texas in the hole by overborrowing and selling off company assets to finance the campaign against Morse. Some examples...
Worrying the rebels was the fact that the market value of Penn-Texas stock has slumped from this year's high of $19.62 to last week's $12.37. Charged a leader of another dissident group, Attorney Alfons Landa (who is also chairman of the executive committee of Fruehauf Trailer Co., and holder of 1,400 shares of Penn-Texas): "This case is alarmingly similar to Sydney Albert's Bellanca [TIME, Oct. 22]. In Bellanca, Albert had a whole safe full of unissued shares, which he traded for shares of other companies to gain control of them." Answered...
Shortly before his death, Tozzer completed a general study of Middle American archaeology, which has been described by his colleagues as a "monumental synthesis." He also published what is considered the outstanding English translation of the Landa manuscript, written by a Spanish bishop about...
...LANDA Ormond Beach...
...Colonial director since 1944. Dykes learned to fly in the Army during World War I, later worked as a field manager for the U.S. Mail Service and regional maintenance superintendent for American Airlines. In 1941, Colonial hired him as its top maintenance man. As president, he succeeds Alfons Landa, who took the job on a fill-in basis when Sigmund Janas resigned under fire from the CAB (TIME, July 2). Last week Landa reported that Colonial had a 1951 net profit of about $213,000 v. a $310,000 loss...