Word: perlman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Philip Benjamin Perlman, 70, Maryland lawyer, newspaperman (onetime Baltimore Evening Sun city editor and prank-playing crony of H. L. Mencken) and Democratic politician, who from 1947 to 1952 as workhorse Solicitor General of the U.S. personally won an unprecedented 49 cases before the Supreme Court but lost his most famous one, defense of President Truman's 1952 seizure of the steel industry; of heart disease; in Washington. An energetic fighter for civil rights. Perlman was co-chairman of the Platform Committee at last month's Democratic Convention...
...Streeters doubted whether the Central offer was good enough to gain control of the B. & O. But it seemed good enough to block the C. & O.'s effort to get 80% of the B. & O. stock-and blocking the C. & O. is New York Central President Alfred E. Perlman's immediate objective. If a major proxy fight ensues, the much-wooed B. & O. stockholders will be in a position to pick and choose-or to force the Central and C. & O. to talk compromise terms with one another. Railroadmen felt that the two competitors might not really...
...held by Swiss banking interests, and the better growth possibilities of the Central, Wall Street believes that it will be hard for the C. & O. to acquire the 80% it needs for a tax-free stock trade. It would be especially difficult if the Central board goes along with Perlman's view that about...
...stock should be bought by interests friendly to the Central. Perlman says all he wants is an equal interest with...
...Perlman may have a hard time getting the C. & O. to accept him. In its application to the ICC to merge with...