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Contractees were the Boeing Airplane Co. of Seattle; Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. Inc. of Garden City, L. I.; Douglas Aircraft Inc., of Santa Monica, Calif.: Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America, of Hassbrouck Heights, N. J.; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. of Baltimore...
Divorced. Will H. Hays, onetime (1921-22) Postmaster-General, onetime Republican National Committee Chairman, President of Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America; from Mrs. Helen Louise Thomas Hays; at Sullivan, Ind.; after a marriage lasting 27 years. Reason: incompatibility...
When, last March, Elisha Walker's Blair & Co. merged with Amadeo Peter Giannini's Bank of America, N. A. (TIME, April 1), the union was generally interpreted as a combination of Giannini resources with Blair & Co. personnel. When, last month (TIME, June 3), Banker Giannini announced that his 60th birthday (1870-1930) would mark his retirement, evident became Elisha Walker's position as Heir Apparent. Thus last week's amalgamation of Bank of America, N. A., with Chatham and Phenix National Bank and Trust Co. might well have been regarded as First Result of Blair...
Potent was the bank of America-Chatham-Phenix consolidation. It created Fourth Largest Manhattan Bank (after National City, Guaranty Trust, Chase-National Park). Combined capital of the two banks is $38,500,000; combined surplus and undivided profits are $53,082,662 ; combined total resources...
History of the two companies goes back to 1812, when both Bank of America and Phenix National were founded. During its entire 117 years of business life, Bank of America has not budged from its Wall-and-William-Streets site, though its present building was erected in 1926. Amadeo Peter Giannini acquired control (from Ralph Jonas and Associates in Financial & Industrial Securities Corp.) in 1928, added to it two smaller Giannini banks and the N. A. (National Association) portion of its name. The Phenix Bank merged with Chatham National (founded 1850) in 1911, added other banks...