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...last week Continental Illinois was selling at $55 and there had been several dividends paid in stock. Hercules Life was the second largest owner, with some 15,000 shares. This tempting asset has long been eyed hungrily by Amadeo Peter ("A. P.") Giannini of San Francisco, who is to the West's banking what the Rockies are to its topography. Mr. Giannini's Transamerica Corp., once the biggest bank holding company in the world, is now being transformed into an investment trust because A. P. doesn't have to wet his finger more than once...
...share in the syndicate had been bought by Mrs. Young, who is the sister of Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, the remainder by a lawyer "for the personal holding com-pany of an undisclosed individual." While Wall Street ears tingled to talk that this unknown was either Amadeo Peter Giannini or John Jacob Astor III, in Cleveland the Alleghany Board met to discuss yet more simplification plans...
...dither last month were San Francisco financial circles over the well-authenticated report that potent Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini had testily refused to list a new issue of Transamerica Corp. stock on the San Francisco Exchange until benign President Frank Shaughnessy resigned (TIME, Aug. 16). Since Transamerica for years had been the busiest stock on the San Francisco Exchange, this gave brokers, already scratching for commissions, a real matter for worry. The squabble grew out of old "A. P.'s" decision to turn Transamerica, once the world's largest bank holding company, into an investment trust. One move...
...before giving its permission, fearing that destruction of the bridge during a war would cork the harbor. Shipping interests fought it bitterly and the Government finally imposed a high-tide clearance 100 ft. higher than Brooklyn Bridge's. The PWA refused to help, as did most banks. Then Amadeo Peter Giannini's Bank of America took the bonds which financed it.* These preliminaries at last over, the builders faced what Joe Strauss called "the most diffi cult engineering feat ever tackled." Three years of construction overcame this obstacle...
Instead of silencing conjecture, the big Ball gift generated a swarm of new stories. Hearst's New York American "learned exclusively" that California Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini's Transamerica Corp., through Bancamerica-Blair Corp., had been negotiating for Midamerica's 2,064,000 shares of Alleghany Corp. common stock which it holds in the complex Van Sweringen corporate setup. But old Mr. Giannini denied this...