Word: ansbacher
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...demonstrate the efficacy of Sears Roebuck's best chicken feed, Sears-Roebuck's Lancaster, Pa. Manager Mark Wayne Ansbach last spring popped a Plymouth Rock pullet named Priscilla into a big glass jar, placed the jar in his store window. Priscilla thrived on her mail-order diet, soon grew so large that she could not be removed from the jar. The S. P. C. A. arrested Mr. Ansbach, got him fined $10. He appealed...
Bankers big & little know perfectly well that their titular leader at this time should be above reproach, unjustified though the reproach may be. But many feel Banker Hecht's long devotion to ABA affairs should be duly rewarded. No one denies that the swart little Bavarian from Ansbach with the slick black hair and the cropped mustache is a banker born. After a short training in Chicago he went to New Orleans, was a bank president at 33. But whether the ABA will break tradition to pass by Mr. Hecht at 49 is likely to be a hot question when...
...fought branchbanking as "financial feudalism" and ''economic vassalage." Last autumn when he was elected second vice president of the American Bankers Association, thus assuring him of the presidency in 1935, he ate his words and said: "We cannot stem the tide of economic events." A Bavarian from Ansbach, he learned banking in Chicago, went to the Hibernia 26 years ago. At 33 he was president. John J. Gannon, whom he displaced, spent the brief balance of his life cursing Rudolf Hecht in all public places as a double-crosser...