Word: okins
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...trouble brewed as soon as urbane, grey-haired Chairman Clarence Edward Groesbeck pounded the gavel to open the company's meeting in downtown Manhattan. Up jumped scrappy, leather-lunged Stockholder Samuel Okin, crying: "This whole meeting is invalid . . . the proxies must be checked." Chairman Groesbeck quickly shoved the gavel into the hands of tall, suave Ebasco President Samuel Wilson Murphy, but the rumpus could not be stopped...
...Truth. Stockholder Okin bellowed on: "I'm going to tell the whole truth about the company's officers and directors . . . and don't anybody try to stop me." Paced by the staccato poundings of President Sam Murphy, Okin told how he had bought 9,000 shares of Ebasco stock, was about to lose everything because "the management had tried to sell the company down the river by playing into the hands of the SEC." Up went shouts: "Fight the SEC!" "Save our company!" A peacemaker tried to smooth things over, got so wrought up himself that...
...guts who would fight the SEC." Another proposed to pitch out the present nine-man board of directors, put in three management men, three preferred stockholders, three common shareholders. President Murphy called this "an excellent idea," but out of order unless names were submitted in advance. Then over-zealous Okin grabbed the floor again, harangued for over an hour. The shareholders listened at first, then heckled him, hooted him, finally shouted him down...
...state capital reporter, United Press, Oklahoma City; Frank K. Kelly, Rewrite, city desk, Associated Press, New York; Erwin W. Kieckhefer, Country Editor, Minneapolis Star-Journal; Kenneth F. McCormick, Reporter, Detroit Free Press; Arthur B. Musgrave, Copy Editor, Houston Post; Fred W. Neal, Washington correspondent, Wall Street Journal; Robert Okin, Reporter and rewrite man, Associated Press, New York; Oren M. Stephens, Sunday editor and columnist, Arkansas Democrat, Little Rock, Arkansas; and William A. Townes, Assistant City Editor, Cleveland Press...
...state capitol reporter, United Press, Oklahoma City; Frank K. Kelly, Rewrite, city desk, Associated Press, New York; Erwin W. Kieckhefer, Country Editor, Minneapolis Star-Journal; Kenneth F. McCormick, Reporter, Detroit Free Press; Arthur B. Musgrave, Copy Editor, Houston Post; Fred W. Neal, Washington correspondent, Wall Street Journal; Robert Okin, Reporter and rewrite man, Associated Press, New York; Oren M. Stephens, Sunday editor and columnist, Arkansas Deocrat, Little Rock, Arkansas; and William A. Townes, Assistant City Editor, Cleveland Press...