Word: proskauer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...share. Mr. Doherty's new stock had one vote per share. His voting power was thus increased from about 6% to 30%-un-questioned control of the company. At the trial which began last month in Manhattan, Mr. Doherty's attorneys, John W. Davis and Joseph M. Proskauer, declared that "no decent and no proper motive" moved Cities Service's plaintiff stockholders. Mr. Doherty, they said, had been induced to sell the 200,000 shares by Cities Service directors in order to make his estate more liquid in the event of his death. Because the selling price...
With this nicely articulated case against him, Percival E. Jackson, attorney for the plaintiffs, hid his surprise last week, quickly joined in a motion for adjournment when Mr. Proskauer read Mr. Doherty's offer of settlement. It included a tender of attorneys' fees for the suing stockholders. Wrote Mr. Doherty from his ten hospital rooms: "I would not have it thought that any payment made by me to settle the present situation could be considered in the slightest degree as an admission of any remissness. . . . [Our] organization is built up to manage properties and not to conduct litigation...
...Hoffman, which was written in England in the early 1890's. . . . Note that it was in 1849 that Robert-Houdin, famous French magician, first exposed the Indian methods publicly. . . . All of the sideshow workers in the U. S. that I ever knew used this corset arrangement. JULIEN J. PROSKAUER...
...members of the Club, which is headed by S.J. Winer '33, and includes Richard Proskauer '34, C.M. Agress '33, and Glenn Millikan, Instructor in Bio-Chemistry, in its membership, have also challenged any other House to a race over any course and for any distance up to 20 miles. No definite statement could be had from Samborski, although he intimated that the matter would be given due consideration...
...TODAY AT 2 O'CLOCK Philosophy A Acheson-Fishburn Emerson J Fox-Proskauer Emerson D Range-Srole Emerson A Stebbins-Young Emerson...