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...next three hours minority stockholders (including Manhattan Ribbon Manufacturer Arthur C. Flatto, recent No. 1 stockholding critic of Western Union) aired their views, heckled the management, demanded minority representation, applauded, jeered. When the uproar was over, tough Charlie Hardy announced the results of the annual election: the management slate had been reelected. Extent of its support: more than 60% of the 589,150 eligible shares. Oscar Cintas picked up his umbrella and walked out with Latin disdain...
...black-browed John Dillinger, potbellied "Killer" Burke, the late Charlie Birger of Southern Illinois were virtuosos with the Thompson, called it, with utility in mind, a chopper. But gangsters got their choppers by stealing them from policemen who had found them wonderfully effective for erasing hoodlums from the public slate. For the Thompson, only a few ounces heavier than a Springfield rifle, is an amazingly potent weapon...
With the exception of the tie in the Junior election the voting was not closely contested for either slate. Football captain Torbert H. Macdonald '40 was 30 votes behind the sixth place position, while Seth C. Crocker '41 of Eliot House trailed James by 13 votes...
Final tabulations showed that four Winthrop men, four Eliot, one Dunster, and one Adams man had been elected. It was baseball twirler Thomas V. Healey who led the Junior slate with 207 votes; Langdon P. Marvin topped the list in the '41 race with...
William C. Coleman, Jr., next year's hockey captain, was fifth on the '40 slate with 173 ballots cast. The tie for sixth was between two present members of the Council, 1940 track captain James D Light body, Jr, and Douglas Mercer of Winthrop House who led the ticket last year; both received 168 votes. The election of seven instead of six Juniors will reduce the number of those appointed by one according to official decree...