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...frosty morning in Akron last week when Toledo's Edward Lamb landed his private plane for the showdown in his fight for control of Seiberling Rubber Co. In the big ballroom of the Sheraton-Mayflower Hotel, where the Seiberling proxies were to be counted, Lamb's reception was even frostier. He was ignored by President J. P. Seiberling, who pointedly opened the meeting with a brief announcement that the old management had kept control. Thus Lamb learned that he had lost his fight to add the family-controlled company to his 30 other enterprises...
DESPITE our cross-filing law, California allows no cross-over by the voter in a Presidential primary, so the fight between [Kefauver and Stevenson] in the state will be a strictly Democratic Party showdown. It shapes up today as the pivotal Democratic pre-convention battle, out of which will come a clearer indication of the relative strength of Kefauver and Stevenson than Minnesota has given...
...Chairman J. D. Allen has joined the raiders, sold 44,500 of his shares (at $36 apiece) to Pittston, which wants to merge the company with its own U.S. Trucking Co. But President H. Edward Reeves and four of the seven board members are fighting back, plan a showdown at the annual meeting March...
...Sioux, he stumbles upon toothsome Debra Paget and a papoose in the underbrush, and drags her back to camp to act as his cook. At this cavalier treatment, Debra smolders and Granger burns, but all Taylor does is sneer and menacingly crook his itchy trigger finger. However, the showdown must be deferred, since...
...force the strip miners of eastern Ohio to cover up their eroding handiwork after a mine is depleted. Under his direction 27 million trees have been planted to replenish the state's dwindling forests. His position on civil rights might give pause to his Southern supporters in the showdown. During the Democrats' two-year heyday in Columbus, Lausche nearly won passage of a Fair Employment Practices Act with enforcement features. Said Lausche in his 1955 message to the legislature : "The decision of the United States Supreme Court requiring the schools of our country to provide equality of teaching...