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...hundred of the 250,000 stock-holders of Transamerica Corp. went to Wilmington last week for the annual meeting, determined to support Amadeo Peter Giannini in his attempt to oust Elisha Walker's management (TIME, Feb. 15). Much sooner than was expected the 200 stockholders heard what they wanted, yelled and cheered. For their votes and other votes gave founder Giannini 15,371,578 votes...
Elwood Kimball Salls '34 of Vinal-haven, Maine, has been named assistant wrestling manager for next season. At the same time John Mason Towle '34 of Wilmington, Illinois, was appointed second University manager. The Freshman managerial competition was won by Jonathan Seiferth England '35, of Pittsfield, Mass...
Married. Francis V. du Pont, 37. of Wilmington, Del., son of the late Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont; and Janet M. Gram, 24, of Buffalo, N. Y.; in Baltimore. Present was the bridegroom's brother-in-law. Delaware's Governor C. Douglass Buck...
With this incident there came .an end to all stories that hostilities would cease. It was to be war to the end. That end was to be Feb. 15, when in person and by proxy the owners of a gigantic holding company, Transamerica, will gather in Wilmington, Del. to vote. Last week Mr. Giannini, still campaigning, continued to claim that his white proxies represented a majority. Silently confident that their blue proxies would win were the Walker group...
...five unexploded bombs were removed, at the end of a long pole, to a quarry near Easton. Charles V. Weaver, an explosive expert from the du Pont works in Wilmington, undertook the risky business of opening them to see what they were made of. With a knife at the end of a pole he undid one package, set to work on another, putting a stone on the top while he cut away