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Overshadowed by his older brother, Amadeo Peter Giannini, head of Transamerica Corp., Attilio Giannini had quietly grown into a unique relationship with the cinema industry. Cut out to be a doctor, he took his M.D. at the University of California, doctored 6,000 Negro troops stationed at San Francisco's Presidio during the Spanish-American War, worked day & night through the terror of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, nearly died of typhus. Meanwhile Brother Amadeo's bank, having been demolished in the earthquake, moved into Attilio's house. When he recovered from typhus, Attilio became manager...
...investment than a Liberty Bond." The Kid paid back its loan in five months, and Liberty Bonds dropped to 80. In 1931 Bank of America National Association, into which the East River Bank had grown, was absorbed by Manhattan's National City Bank. Attilio went back to Brother Amadeo's potent Bank of America N.T. & S.A. as director and executive committee chairman and moved into the position of financial godfather to the cinema industry. Cinemagnates went to him first for loans and advice, called him "Doc," credited him with having settled more cinema wrangles than...
...White House the first fruits of his new labor: the directors of the Good Neighbor League, newly organized to promote the New Deal's "Good Neighbor" policy. Among the directors were Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Methodist Bishop Edgar Blake, Dr. George Foster Peabody, Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, Social Worker Lillian D. Wald, Dr. Henry Goddard Leach. Object of the League was to unite the forces of Feminism, Piety and Pacifism behind Franklin Roosevelt for reelection...
...same day, at the same hour, that Crocker directors were naming Willie Crocker as his father's successor, another meeting was held four blocks away at No. 1 Powell St. to up another banker's son to another banking presidency. The father: Amadeo Peter Giannini. The son : Lawrence Mario Giannini. The presidency: Bank of America's. Except for parentage, promotion and position, the parallel stopped there...
...when his famed father is there, chief executive officer when his father is absent, which is about five months of the year. Slight, baldish, Mario Giannini is at 41 a veteran of one of the classic wars of U. S. financial history-the long Depression fight in which old Amadeo Giannini lost, then regained control of Transamerica Corp., owner of Bank of America. Son Mario has a severe Latin countenance, a subtle, acute intelligence, keeps his fingers on every phase of his big bank's operations. Among his associates he is liked and admired but. reserved, taciturn, poor...