Word: slate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even before he filed his suit Green raised such a rumpus that Skouras agreed to his demand for five new men on the ten-man 20th Century board to represent minority interests," provided that they were well-known businessmen. When Green presented a slate of names, Skouras said he had never heard of them, refused to seat them. Green also tried to make a deal with Zanuck, promising him the presidency if he would help to oust Skouras. Zanuck turned him down, said the suit could only be actuated by a desire of reprisal . . ." So Green squared...
...outstanding), they would ordinarily have no trouble defeating Green. But cumulative voting for directors, which increases each stockholder's vote by the number of directors to be elected and allows the votes to be cast for one or more directors instead of for an entire slate, gives Green a chance to win some seats on the board. To block him, the company has called a special stockholders' meeting for May 5 to amend the bylaws in order to eliminate cumulative voting. Said Green: "This fight ... is going to cost the company a lot of money...
...summer Norman H. French of Casper, Wyo., water expert of the U.S. Point Four program, went into the desert with a gang of Arabs and some U.S. earth-moving equipment. Jordan gets some rain, but it usually comes in violent cloudbursts, and the hard soil sheds it like a slate roof. Instead of sinking in, the water roars down the wadies (dry washes) and is lost in the sand...
Five games--all counting in Ivy standings--remain for the quintet. Penn and Yale are scheduled twice, and a battle at Dartmouth completes the slate...
...trade between the two countries (e.g., German machinery for Yugoslav metals) is flourishing. Last week Bonn announced that Yugoslavia this year would return to Germany 15 German nationals and 150 Volksdeutsche (Yugoslav nationals of German blood) now held in Tito's detention camps. This presumably cleans the slate of all German war prisoners in Yugoslavia...