Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gone. FBI agents rushed to the Manhattan apartment in which Eisler had been living while appealing two jail sentences-one for contempt of Congress, another for falsifying an application for an exit permit. Eisler was gone. The Department of Justice was not only red-faced, but flabbergasted. The little man had been trying to get back to Germany ever since publicity had ruined his effectiveness in the U.S. in 1946. (The U.S. preferred to jail him rather than let him loose to raise trouble in Berlin...
...Steel Corp. has a 22-story building in downtown Manhattan that houses its main offices and the conference rooms in which much of its important business is transacted. Yet for 48 years, the important business of the annual stockholders' meeting has been transacted across the Hudson River in Hoboken, N.J., in a small bank building.* Last week at Big Steel's annual meeting, only 350 stockholders (out of a total of 228,000) bothered to come. But not even all of them could find a place to sit; for three sweltering hours 50 of them had to stand...
...Steel's Chairman Irving S. Olds was cool enough. He calmly used the management's 8,889,042 proxy votes to kill a proposal to move the annual meeting to Manhattan. Olds's action roused Stockholder Wilma Soss (five shares), who recently founded the Federation of Women Shareholders in American Business, Inc. Mrs. Soss had come to the meeting dressed in a 1901 costume with mutton-chop sleeves and ostrich-plumed hat. As Chairman Olds and President Benjamin F. Fairless listened in polite boredom, Stockholder Soss sassed them. Her costume, she said, was appropriate for a management...
...companies can get away with holding their meetings in damned inaccessible places like Squeedunkus or Hohokus . . ." In midweek, the stockholders' revolt gained a small victory. Continental Can Co., Inc., which has been holding its annual meetings in Millbrook, N.Y., a more than two-hour train & bus trip from Manhattan, announced that it would hold future meetings in its Manhattan headquarters...
...Alexander C. Nagle, president of Manhattan's First National Bank; George A. Sloan, publisher of the Southern Agriculturist; William A. Irvin, ex-president of U.S. Steel; Counsel Nathan L. Miller, onetime governor of New York; Chairman Olds; President Fairless...