Word: tomlinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loew's International, the corporation's foreign subsidiary. By quitting before the annual stockholders' meeting Feb. 28, Loew, son of Founder Marcus Loew, hoped to head off a long-brewing proxy fight (TIME, Nov. 12) with a dissident group of stockholders led by Canadian Contractor Joseph Tomlinson, Loew's largest individual stockholder (250,000 shares). To appease the Tomlinson faction, the present management, headed by President Joseph R. Vogel, agreed on a slate to be presented to the stockholders. The tentative lineup: six directors for management, six for Tomlinson's group (including Tomlinson himself), with...
...fear of the future. By A.D. 2000, they reckon, the nation's 6,000,000 whites will be swamped in a sea of 25 million blacks. Last week, after five years' study, a government-appointed commission headed by Pretoria University's Professor F. R. Tomlinson, a Cornell graduate with a U.S. wife, brought forth a blueprint for total apartheid (apartness...
ELECTRIC POWER for industrial use, which hit a record 257 billion kilowatt-hours in 1953, will increase another 55% within the next ten years, predicts Westinghouse Vice President Tomlinson Fort. One of the biggest areas of potential growth: the booming air-conditioning industry...
...approached the shrine's huge outdoor display of the Ten Commandments, lettered in concrete, Sheriff M. G. Crawford watched closely. "You strike one blow with that sledge hammer on this property." he told Bishop Tomlinson, "and I'll have to arrest you." The bishop moved his lips in prayer, then swung, chipping away a bit of concrete from the Eighth Commandment ("Thou shalt not steal"). Said Sheriff Crawford: "That does it." He took the bishop off to jail. After an hour, Bishop Tomlinson was released to await trial for destroying private property. Said he confidently: "The trial will...
...Besides Founder Tomlinson's denomination, there are at least 200 other U.S. religious bodies which bear the name "Church of God" or a variant of the name...