Investigation of Conglomerate Corporations: Hearings Before Antitrust Subcommittee (Subcommittee No. 5) of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-first Congress ...

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Page 166 - Building, at the hour of 10 am, then and there to testify touching matters of inquiry committed to said committee; and he is not to depart without leave of said committee. Herein fail not, and make return of this summons "Witness my hand and the seal of the House of Representatives of the United States, at the city of Washington, this 23d day of January 1947. "J. PABNELL THOMAS, Chairman. "Attest: "JOHN ANDREWS, Clerk.
Page 410 - Act or under the provisions of the articles of incorporation or the by-laws of the corporation, a waiver thereof in writing signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to the giving of such notice.
Page 129 - Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House, or any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses...
Page 408 - Directors to fix in advance a date, not exceeding fifty days preceding the date of any meeting of stockholders, or the date for the payment of any dividend, or the date for the allotment of rights, or the date when any change or conversion or exchange of capital stock shall go into effect...
Page 396 - A majority of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business ; but if at any meeting of the board...
Page 398 - ... agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys...
Page 402 - ... purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of the shares of the capital stock of, or any bonds, securities or evidences of indebtedness created by any other corporation or corporations of this or any other state, and while owner of such stock may exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote thereon.
Page 141 - ... must be attended, not only with every element of fairness but with the very appearance of complete fairness.
Page 389 - At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally notified.
Page 399 - ... fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation...

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