Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old gaffer who got a pass from the geriatrics ward of Limerick City Home and Hospital last week hobbled down the street with the same fixed purpose as many another Irishman, sick or well. He was heading for the nearest bookie to bet a tanner or a bob on the Grand National. "The sixpenny bet," said an authority on Fitzwilliam Square (Dublin's Harley Street), "is a great piece of therapy. It keeps them living-to see if their horse wins." Last Saturday, as Quare Times won at Aintree (see SPORT), the Irish hospitals won straight across...
...showdown neared in his fight with Louis Wolfson for control of Montgomery Ward, Sewell Avery threw in his shock troops last week. Two thousand employees called on Ward stockholders, asked them to support the boss. Claimed the company: in some areas just under 90% of the stockholders backed Avery...
...reported Ward, the battle is going Ward's way. The first 30,000 proxy returns looked "very satisfactory" to the company, but it would not reveal how many votes these proxies represented. Still to be heard from are the institutions and corporations that control roughly half of the 6,502,378 shares outstanding...
...Manhattan Edmund A. Krider, Ward's 43-year-old president, charged that Wolfson is hoping to rescue several of his own companies by taking over the mailorder house and forcing it to buy from Wolfson-run enterprises. Krider assailed Wolfson and his associates for taking 166,975 low-priced shares from one firm that they controlled (New York Ship: building) and trading them on an even basis for higher-priced shares in another Wolfson-run company, the construction firm of Merritt-Chapman & Scott. The deal, said Krider, netted them over $2,000,000. A reporter wanted to know what...
...important pitching department, he has his two top men back from last year right handers Andy Ward and Ken Russano Number one man Ward depends on a blazing fast ball with a sharp breaking curve, and last year posted a 3.11 earned run average. Rosano, a control pitcher, allowed 3.73 earned runs per game...