Word: weismann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan Financier WALTER W. WEISMANN, 64, chairman of the Aetna Industrial Corp., rocked Chicago's staid, old Libby, McNeill & Libby food-processing firm by claiming that a group of stockholders represented by him owns or controls some 1,500,000 of Libby's 3,600,000 shares of stock. Weismann thought that the company was doing poorly profitwise, asked for changes in the board and a new board chairman. Libby President Charles S. Bridges refused, wrote stockholders that the management was preparing to fight "a raid upon this company." The stockholders' committee that Weismann represented promised...
...From Geneticist August Weismann (1834-1914) of Freiburg University, author of the germ-plasm theory of heredity...