Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Citizens of U. S. Territories are not eligible to vote in Presidential elections, send no Senators or Representatives to Congress...
...preserve a similar code, and sometimes go to jail for doing so, for only in four States-Maryland, New Jersey, Alabama, California-does the law specifically allow newshawks the right of concealing their news sources. Three weeks ago when Arkansas voters went to the polls they were asked to vote on a proposal to revise the State's criminal code to give newshawks immunity. The count was slow coming in for the public was not greatly interested in the referendum. Last week it was finally in. Arkansas had voted 3 to 1 that: "Before any editor, reporter or other...
Corporation Meeting. In funereal atmosphere punctuated only by tugboat tootings in the harbor, two score small fry and a few big stockholders gathered at No. 17 Battery Place last week to approve or vote down the merger of Tide Water Oil Co. and Associated Oil Co. into a new Tide Water Associated Oil Co. William Francis Humphrey, stout, double-chinned president of Tide Water Associated who is also head of San Francisco's famed Olympic-Club, called the meeting to order, clipped through parliamentary procedure in approved police court fashion...
...savings, but opposed the form of the merger agreement. Disapproval was voiced of 1) the directors' rights to determine conversion privileges and price of 873,000 shares of unissued preferred stock, and 2) "deprivation of rights which should belong to the stockholder," namely, the ability to vote annually on directors. Unperturbed, President Humphrey queried: "Does that mean you are voting against the merger, Mr. Rowland?" Answer: "We're not voting...
...vote on the merger was called for, ballots issued and collected, proxies tabulated. Result: for, 5,318,107 shares; against, 50; not voting, 782,328 (Getty interests); absent...