Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parisian vendors of nearly priceless medieval illuminated manuscripts. Tycoons Owen D. Young and his alternate, Thomas Nelson Perkins, sped out to Cherbourg to meet the Olympic and their wives. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament kept up their round of smart dinners, many with artists and litterateurs of the left bank...
...that modern art naturally tends to enhance utilitarian objects, Painter Poor became Potter Poor. He has now thoroughly infused his art with mundane strength. From shaping delicate urns and saucers, he turns cheerfully to designing a series of mosaic tiles for the Byzantine ceiling of the Union Dime Savings Bank in Manhattan, or a bathroom of mellow tiles for modern ablutions...
...Banking mergers usually proceed through a long period of surmise, rumor and denial until their final announcement is purely a formality. Sudden, unexpected, however, was last-week's announcement that Bank of America N.A. and Bancamerica, its investment company, were to consolidate with the famed private banking house of Blair & Co. Never before in Manhattan* had a commercial bank merged with an investment bank. That Bank of America was contemplating a merger was common knowledge, but that Blair & Co. would constitute the other half of the combination was indeed a surprise...
Central figures in the merger are Amadeo Peter Giannini (who last year secured control of Bank of America and made his brother Attilio Giannini chairman of its board) and Elisha Walker, leader of Blair & Co. With the acquisition of Blair & Co., Mr. Giannini has given his Bank of America a potent investment banking organization that will secure him an entrance into many an investment syndicate that Bancamerica does not reach. Sensational has been Blair & Co.'s success in recent years, its oil operations having culminated in the organization of the recently formed Petroleum Corp., $100,000,000 oil investment...
Prophets immediately linked Blair, Bank of America and Chase National in a grand merger. But there were no indications whatever that Chase's potent Albert Wiggin contemplated the loss of his identity...