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...year now has been Chairman Elisha Walker, a quiet, diplomatic, keen-eyed New Yorker. It is he who keeps watch over Transamerica's resources of $117,191,644, who reports to the 217,000 owners of its 23,823,413 shares. The great shouts of big. jovial Amadeo Peter Giannini have faded further and further into the distance, are gradually becoming echoes. Yet when a major change in Transamerica's management took place last week, the Founder's spirit was still present and active. Out of the company's presidency went his son, Lawrence Mario Giannini. Into it went...
...County, wanted to be a druggist. But the parish priest urged him to go to Santa Clara College. For a while he thought of being an actor, then went to Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco) and was given his degree in 1907. Looking for work, he met Amadeo Peter Giannini who offered him a room, rent-free, if he would attend to some small legal matters. A few years later this association led to his becoming general counsel of Bank of Italy and in 1924 he was made president and chairman of that multi-branched institution...
James Augustus Bacigalupi, onetime (1924-30) president of Bank of Italy, succeeded Lawrence Giannini, son of Amadeo Peter Giannini, as president of Transamerica Corp...
Hero of the battle in the Italian press was 32-year-old Amadeo Umberto Isabella Luigi Filippo Maria Guiseppe Giovanni, Duke of Apulia, cousin of the King, son of the Duke of Aosta, who commanded a squadron of pursuit planes. While the defeated Senussi, with their wives, children, oxen and asses fled like Joseph and Mary into Egypt, Duke Amadeo harried them mightily from the sky, raked them with blazing machine guns, whistling bombs. "Along the route," cabled a correspondent, "water wells at Matea, Bisciara, and elsewhere are filled with bodies...
Unusual as was the inclusion of small stockholders in a big official pool, yet more unusual was the explanatory interview given by Amadeo Peter Giannini, founder of Bank of Italy whence sprang Transamerica. He said, startlingly, that the syndicate should give protection ". . . against such drives ... as have been experienced since the middle of the year 1928, at which time and since a certain California competitor has been a most active participant in the group conducting the market operations. . . . May I urge . . . stockholders to put up a united front against the enemy...