Instead, minority shareholders are upset with Crown and its majority shareholder Hallmark Cards because they believe the company won't be able to reach its full potential under current management.
There is a place on the proxy card for shareholders to "withhold" their votes from any director they choose, but that decision will have no effect on the election.
In Mr. Sansum's defense, Mr. Aidala said that "the way the corporation operated was that in lieu of adequate salaries to the shareholders, business credit cards were issued and used by the members of the corporation for their own personal expenses".
Samsung Everland, an amusement park subsidiary, owns a major stake at Samsung Life, which is the largest stakeholder at Samsung Electronics, which in turn is the No. 1 shareholder at Samsung Card, a credit card company.
A day after Morgan Stanley announced its plan to spin off its Discover Card division, dissident shareholders demanded Tuesday that the investment firm's chief executive, Philip Purcell, be dismissed and be replaced by one of their own.
It advised shareholders not to return the proxy card Weyerhaeuser has circulated in its attempt to unseat the Willamette board.
Highfields and Southeastern planned to include a copy of Mony's proxy card in mailings to shareholders to encourage potential opponents to vote.
The mercurial Mr. Turner, the founder of CNN and a significant shareholder in the company, was already a wild card in the corporate chaos at AOL Time Warner.
To get nominees on the proxy-card ballot, shareholders would have to own their shares for at least a year and would need substantial ownership stakes of at least 1 percent for large firms and 5 percent for small firms.
Over the next few years, he bowed to shareholder pressure to spin off the company's financial divisions: Allstate, the Discover card, Dean Witter, Coldwell Banker and the Sears Mortgage Banking Group.
