His experiment, during the previous summer, of bringing his richest stockholders north, had been a great success.
For instance, I am bringing a party of my stockholders all the way from New York, at my own expense, just to show them how their interests are being administered.
The law of Maine then forbade stockholders to appear by proxy at such meetings.
He said the arm-chairs were good, the collation good, and the free rides to stockholders pleasant.
Margrave had put none of his own money into Traction stock, but had invested funds belonging to the stockholders of the Transcontinental, who had every confidence in his sagacity, and who trusted him implicitly.
The outside stockholders are scattered all over the country, and most of them have quit trying to enforce their rights, if they may be said to have any rights.
And I move," said Percival, "that the secretary be instructed to cast the ballot of the stockholders for Timothy Margrave for president.
He proposed getting some of the Eastern stockholders of the Transcontinental to help him acquire Traction holdings sufficient to get control of the company; and, with Margrave, to decide was to act.
He took from his memorandum calendar the leaf for the day; on it he had posted a cutting from a local newspaper announcing the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Clarkson Traction Company.
One has only to examine the list of stockholders of the Credit Mobilier Company in 1867 to verify this fact.
By this means, although the majority of stockholders might be opposed to the Gould-Fisk management, it would be impossible for them to get possession of the road for at least three years, and full possession for not less than five years.
But after the stockholders had withdrawn their suits, they found that they had been tricked again.
When the English stockholders elected their own board Gould obtained an injunction from the courts.
So long as the profits of these small stockholderswere slightly better than they had been getting before, they were complacently satisfied to let Gould continue his frauds.
Footnote: The full lists of these stockholders can be found in Docs.
It is very rarely the case that we do not have a majority in the legislature who are either presidents, directors orstockholders in incorporated companies.
However the small stockholders might assent, the large English stockholders, some of whom had invidious schemes of their own in the way of which Gould stood, were determined to gain control themselves.
Among these stockholders were many of the most effulgent merchants and bankers in the country; we find William E.
Dodge, for instance, on the list of stockholders in 1863.
But to prevent the defrauded large stockholders from getting possession of the railroad through the courts, another act was passed.
The Assembly Investigating Committee of 1873 referred carelessly to the English stockholders as being "impatient at the law's delay" and therefore taking matters into their own hands.
The English stockholders took no chances on this occasion.
When the English stockholders sent over a large number of shares to be voted in for a new management, it was Barnard who allowed this stock to be voted by Gould and Fisk.
The directors and stockholders of the company were not satisfied with the comprehensive privileges that they had already obtained.
After a steeple chase for a while the two promoters came to terms at the expense of the stockholders and the public.
The profits of the stockholders consist of the excess of money received for premiums over the amount paid out for losses.
The stockholderselect of their number (usually) thirteen directors, who choose one of themselves as president.
But from the average number and amount of losses annually for many years, companies are enabled so to fix the rates of insurance as to give the stockholders a fair profit on their capital.
Stockholders depend, for the reimbursement of their capital, upon the money to be received for the transportation of passengers and freight.
This has been done in some states by making the stockholders individually liable for the redemption of the bills; that is, the property owned by them as individuals may be taken and sold on execution for that purpose.
Now the number of stockholders of this factory is one thousand six hundred, while only five hundred workmen are employed there.
Accordingly, there exists a large number of stockholders who are not also workmen in the factory; on the other hand, all the workmen are not at the same time stockholders.
To establish a factory in which five hundred workmen find employment, I need sixteen hundred workingmen stockholders in order to have the necessary capital.
I suppose we are all stockholders in the great corporation known as the United States of America, and as such stockholders we have a right to vote the way we think will best subserve our own interests.
If he is elected he will be controlled by his party, and his party will be controlled by the Southern stockholdersin that party.
And they knew all the time that whatever they decided to do out there in the wilderness meant thousands of dollars to the stockholderssomewhere up in God's country, who would some day hold them to account for them.
It made the Bank, however, very unpopular with the officers and stockholders of the banks chartered by the Commonwealths.
The President saw also, {205} with Senator Benton, that the use of the Government deposits by the Bank was a source of income to the stockholders at the popular expense.
He calculated that the privilege to be granted to the existing stockholders by the re-charter of the Bank was worth seventeen millions of dollars, while the bonus which they would be required to pay was but three millions.
Moreover, the Bank law prevented the foreign stockholders from voting in the election of the directors of the Bank.
About this time a meeting of the stockholders of the Academy of Music was convened, and I ultimately signed a new lease for three more years, commencing October 20th following.
I regret to say that many of the stockholders sent me no response whatever.
The fact that tens of thousands of innocent stockholders might lose their all, as a result of the foul use of powerful maladroit publicity-machinery, did not stop the conspirators for a moment.
Stockholders gave no sign of a tendency to unload.
I decided to "make" Salt Lake on my return trip from Los Angeles and be there on New Year's Day with our mailing-list, to superintend the mailing of the papers to all stockholders in Sullivan properties.
I decided that the trust company should refund the money paid in by stockholders of Bullfrog Rush and prevent Dr.
On the other hand the newspaper agitation was unmitigated in its violence, stockholders were convulsed, a break of serious proportions was certain, and it was up to me to conserve every dollar.
This fact stands out: Although Goldfield Consolidated owned at the outset a bonanza gold mine, stockholders had just two chances.
Tonopah stockholders that Mr. Schwab and his associates had unloaded at the top.
My sympathies were with the stockholders of Goldfield Consolidated--that's all.
Letters and telegrams were sent broadcast by market enemies urging stockholders to sell.
Most of ourstockholders live in the Middle West and the East.
I've been in the mining game myself, Sautee, but in our country men spend their lives hunting metal to make some bunch of stockholders rich.
Our stockholders have honored me right along, and I'd like to show 'em that I deserve my reputation as a financier.
I reckon it means that the stockholders will be assessed the full hundred per cent of liability.
I thought the stockholders were in about the same pew with us.
I was looking at the stockholders interests when I turned over all the money, and I wanted the boys to get back their ten per cent.
Did you have the interests of the stockholdersat heart?
If there is nothing left after paying the other items mentioned above, the stockholders receive nothing, so that there is a certain risk connected with an investment in railroad stock that does not apply to railway or Government bonds.
I got up a small engine for that purpose, and put it upon the road, and invited the stockholdersto witness the experiment.
The principal stockholders had become so discouraged that they said they would not pay any more, and would lose all they had already paid in.
He was supposed to be dishonest, and it is true he did not scruple to use his enemies' weapons; but at directors' meetings it was the interest of the stockholders that he fought for.
These stockholders had great confidence in Jim, for under his management their investment was beginning to pay, and they, he felt sure, approved of his action in the C.
That is why certain industrial societies pay their stockholders a dividend even before the enterprise has yielded anything.
The stockholders in the Mexican Development are still waiting for returns on their investment.
Any number of stockholders in the different companies stand ready to testify to the correctness of the foregoing.
The International and Christie companies paid all the stockholders who appeared, at first.
The stockholders have, with a few insignificant exceptions, lost every dollar invested.
While other companies are asking their stockholders for more money to pay their Boston losses, we are asking ours to put us in the first rank of underwriting institutions in the United States.
To him she was the daughter of a magnate who lived in a large house on Beacon Street and whose traction company gave its stockholders (whatever else might be said of its passengers) very little cause for complaint.
And I presume the directors and other stockholders take advantage of that fact?
It would therefore be desirable that the State should take another thousand million, to relieve the poor iron manufacturers; or the suffering stockholders of coal mines; or those unfortunate lumber dealers, or the useful codfishery.
The stockholders of railroads, if they can obtain a majority in the Chambers, will no doubt soon favor us with a law forbidding the manufacture, at Cognac, of the brandy used in Paris.
Mr. President," she said, "I move that the money at present in our treasury be set aside as a profit and divided among the stockholders pro rata.
Some of the stockholders make no secret of the fact that they would very much prefer Italian to German opera, which is Sanskrit to them; and every year, at the directors' meetings, the question of reviving Italian opera is warmly debated.
To this class of stockholders what difference can it make whether they have German or Italian opera?
But it must be borne in mind that this assessment simply represents the sum that the stockholders paid for their boxes.
Many of the stockholders have converted the ante-rooms to their boxes into luxurious parlors, into which they can retire and talk if the music bores them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stockholders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
