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...National was nothing new in A.P.'s ken. He tried to take it over in 1943, when his top holding company, Transamerica Corp., offered to exchange 124,000 shares of Manhattan's National City Bank for the same number of shares in Citizens National. But Herbert Dee Ivey, Citizens National's up-from-messenger president, wanted no part of Giannini domination. He and his brother, Executive Vice-President L. Otis Ivey, persuaded the bank's 21-man board of directors to turn the offer down cold...
Actually, it was hard to find great fault with the way President Ivey had run Citizens National. The bank had weathered the depression without Government help (as Giannini's organization had not), its earnings were regular, if unspectacular. A.P.'s only specific complaint: "Its capital funds have not been restored to the 1930 position...
...when the directors met last week, they plainly showed signs of being unnerved by the Giannini maneuverings. Unanimously they adopted a resolution to go shopping for an aggressive new executive or two. To Spring Street it looked as though old A. P. would soon be playing in the Ivey League...
SHELLEY - Newman Ivey White -Knopf (2 vols...
...biographers and critics had a good year, led in interest by Van Wyck Brooks's New England: Indian Summer and in weight by Newman Ivey White's ten-pound, two-volume Shelley. It was the year of a posthumous volume by Mark Twain. The one volume of great poetry was not a new poet's, but the last work of W. B. Yeats...