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...President Fleming had no monopoly on good temper. Off the convention floor the delegates were cheered by a round of festivities including two boat rides around San Francisco Bay, a grand banquet and ball at the Palace Hotel, a golf tournament at the Olympic Club's Lakeside course. Amadeo Giannini's Bank of America, biggest U. S. bank west of Manhattan, outdid itself in the matter of hospitality. To each of the bankers' ladies on the night of the formal ball, Bank of America sent a corsage of two orchids. To each of the bankers it dispatched...
...Barcelona, broke into Huesca at nine in the morning, but was checked for four hours by 26 machine-guns installed on a church roof and belfry, which vomited livid death into the front ranks of the Popular Frontists as they entered the main square. Shortly after noon two Anarchists, Amadeo Salvan and Fernández Ubarri, loaded themselves with sacks of dynamite weighing 40 lbs. each, and made a dash for the church, each with a split fuse held in one hand and a lighted cigaret in the other. Fernandez Ubarri was hit, for he was seen to fall twice...
...October 1928, burly Amadeo Peter ("A. P.") Giannini clearly asserted his intention of throwing a network of banks across the U. S. when he named his bank holding company Transamerica Corp. That year the No. 1 U. S. branch banker was well on his way toward his goal, with 2,000,000 loyal depositors, mostly of Italian origin, in a formidable lineup of banks in California, New York and Italy. Already he had begun nosing into Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis and New Orleans, dabbling in the security trading business through Bancitaly Corp...
...consternation Pacific Mutual's crash caused on the West Coast. Last year the 68-year-old company had policies amounting to $636,000,000, assets of $215,000,000, ranked No. 19 in the U. S. insurance lineup. To West Coast insurance, old Pacific Mutual was virtually what Amadeo Peter Gianninrs Bank of America is to West Coast banking (see p. 51). Outside California it was licensed to do business in some 40 States, the District of Columbia and Hawaii...
...case had been transferred. Making no secret of their suspicions, policyholders charged that, as late as the first of this year, false financial statements had been issued showing Pacific Mutual $10,000,000 in the black when there was actually a deficit of more than twice that amount, that Amadeo Peter Giannini's Occidental Life Insurance Co. had offered to buy the company for $10,000,000, and keep all policies in force, although Commissioner Carpenter had valued it at only...