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...first robustious president, in another oil venture. Mr. Cullinan had quit the company a few years before in one of those periodic management eruptions which have given Texaco such a peculiarly individualistic tang ever since it was founded in 1902. Mr. Cullinan had called for the usual showdown with the board of directors. A loser, he picked up his hat and walked out, with no hard feelings, to start what he hoped would be another Texaco. When he needed a good oil man he went to his old company, persuaded it to release Captain Rieber. But by 1927 Captain Rieber...
...pitched battle in one of the refrigerating rooms of the Biological Laboratory recently. In the past some students have kept their box lunches and suppers in these "cold rooms." Others have insisted in storing their animals, alive and dead, fresh and preserved, in these same chambers. A showdown between the two factions was imminent...
...backyard, after a six-month layoff, discovery of the Committee's interim activities roused a mighty howl throughout the land, which showed that many & many a citizen still regarded his privacy as something more than a "fiction." Backed up by court action, it promised to result in a showdown on the headline-making power of Congress to probe the affairs of private citizens at will...
...assets behind it, a condition by no means unique among investment trust stocks. The committee felt that their trust should stand ready to buy its own stock at any time for approximately the actual asset value, as does that remarkably successful open-end Boston trust, State Street Investment. On showdown the insurgent committee was outvoted by Mr. Presley's supporters, 261,000 shares to 107,000 shares...
Thus Administrator Ridder was forced to a showdown on a problem over which he and all other relief officials have sweated ever since relief began. Potent is the argument of employers, as stated...