Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairmanship of Standard Oil of Indiana. Once (in 1923) Mr. Kingsbury, taking a cross-continental trip, was shocked to discover waiting for him at every station no less strange a present than a bag of onions. The onion-sender was Herbert Fleishhacker. Soon, at the Anglo & London-Paris National Bank, there arrived a return present from Mr. Kingsbury. The Kingsbury gift consisted of two water-buffaloes, several crates of smaller animals, and a liveried bugler to announce the arrival of the menagerie. Buffaloes, animals, bugler were all sent...
Southern Pacific, William Crocker inherited the Crocker fortune and the First National Bank of San Francisco. As a second-generation tycoon, he is ultraconservative, correct, distant, cosmopolitan. Traditional even in his recreations, he is an ardent golfer...
...Dohrmann. Head of the Dohrmann Commercial Co., coastwide merchants, is A. B. C. Dohrmann, onetime director in San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, present member of State Industrial Welfare Commission. Mr. Dohrmann has dabbled somewhat in motion-picture producing. He believes in short skirts, in efficiency for women...
Other Tycoons. Incomplete must be any brief list of San Francisco financiers. Thus San Franciscans might well object to the omission of John Drum, head of American Trust Co., now, after many mergers, San Francisco's large independent bank ($273,776,849 in deposits). Like Giannini, Mr. Drum is a Papal Knight. He is most famed for his starry-domed marble bungalow atop the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill. Notable also is able Frank B. Anderson, board chairman of Bank of California; his chief idiosyncrasy, a fondness for donkeys. Paul Shoup, President of Southern Pacific Co. also stands high...
...investor with $5,000 cash can buy outright about 55 shares of the ''average" stock, since the price of all the issues on the Exchange board averages about $90. Yet this same investor could not purchase even a single share of Manhattan's First National Bank, which last week rose 1,200 points in two days and reached a quotation of $7,300 a share. As George F. Baker, board chairman of First National, is said to hold 20,000 shares (there are only 100,000 outstanding) the 1,200-point rise gave him a paper profit...