Word: amadeo
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...honest, efficient William E. Pulliam, U. S. Customs Receiver General, whose job it is to collect Dominican customs against the Republic's $16,000,000 debt to U. S. bondholders. The other was the Italian Consul, Amadeo Barletta...
...turning up as curios in the homelands of the traders. Not until shortly after the turn of the Century, when the founders of modern art loudly proclaimed their independence, was the artistic merit of these mementos of the slave trade generally appreciated. Young modernists like Jacob Epstein, Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modigliani, were profoundly affected by West African sculpture. Today an African mask or two is as necessary for the apartment of a young-man-about-Paris as lounging pajamas and a bottle of port...
...Francisco to be their national commander (salary: $9,000). After the War, through which he served in the U. S., emerging a second lieutenant, Frank Belgrano went into his father's business, the Banca Popolare Fugazi of San Francisco. He was cashier of that bank in 1927 when Amadeo Peter Giannini, great imperialist among California's bankers, took it into his mighty chain. Today Legionary Belgrano is a vice president of Giannini's Bank of America, president of the Pacific National Fire Insurance Co., a financier by trade. A quick thinker, direct in action, a good organizer...
...partners, acts today mostly as an adviser. Jerome Jones Hanauer, Jacob Schiff's trusted "inside man," retired last year. Sir William Wiseman is a Briton who has been a partner only five years. Today much of the work is done by Elisha Walker, onetime ally of Amadeo Peter Giannini, and by able Benjamin Buttenwieser, who, as manager of the firm's syndicate department, is considered one of the most brilliant young men in Wall Street...
...banks have failed since but a tottering chain of twelve institutions, owned by George Wingfield, oldtime gambler and mining speculator, never reopened. Transamerica's eastward move brought promise of a desert blooming of new banks. Reno's First National has long been hand-in-glove with Amadeo Peter Giannini and Nevadans welcomed the deal, hoping that under his control the $7,500,000 bank would soon begin to branch into bankless communities...