PREVIEW: From a conversation with author Janice Traflet about the early days of investor activism (that is now commonplace (such as Nelson Pelz at Disney) with celebrity iconoclast Wilma Soss, who delighted in challenging corporate arrogance at the annual
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🗓️ 24 December 2023
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Fearless: Wilma Soss and America's Forgotten Investor Movement
by Robert E. Wright (Author), Janice Traflet (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Fearless-Americas-Forgotten-Investor-Movement/dp/1958682306
1915 Wall Street
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| 1:06.6 | fearless Wilma Sauce and America's forgotten investor moment. Wilma was a pioneer from the 40s, 50s, and 60s at attending |
| 1:17.4 | corporate meetings, stockholder gatherings that had been seen up to that point as unnecessary. |
| 1:24.7 | The company was going to carry away all the profits and you didn't show up as a shareholder. |
| 1:30.1 | You sent no one. |
| 1:32.3 | The celebration, about Wilma Sauce was she pushed back. |
| 1:36.8 | We have Nelson Pelt's today pushing back at Disney. We can only imagine how Wilma |
| 1:41.8 | would treat Disney's conduct these last years, |
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