Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radio Singer Lancelot ("Lanny") Ross, 1927 Yale track captain. The Montclair Yale Bowl awarded annually to the Yaleman "who has made his Y in life," first won in 1926 by Pennsylvania Railroad's late President William Wallace Atterbury, went to President Frederick Ely Williamson of the New York Central Railroad, Yale...
...Central figure in the show is the U. S. "Secretary of Entertainment" in an unnamed President's Cabinet. Impersonated by old Joe Whitehead, one of Madison Street's great grey-derby-&-checked-veit comics 30 years ago, this character is a veteran ham determined to spend lots of government money on actors in spite of the "Secretary of the Budget," Al Smith, the Liberty League and an unrealistically tight-fisted committee of U. S. Senators. Very much on the awful, side of O Say Can You Sing? are some of the unbelievably corn-fed wisecracks which Librettists...
...modified superlative so dear to the West Coast, the Central Bank of Oakland is the "largest California bank outside of San Francisco and Los Angeles" (resources: $43,000,000). Its 15-story building at Broadway and 14th Street, where 15 Oakland trolley lines converge, is described by the bank as "sublimated and refined Italian Romanesque." Last week Amadeo Peter Giannini, who if not precisely sublimated or Romanesque is at least refined Italian, reached out across the Bay from San Francisco, firmly grasped the stoutly independent Central Bank of Oakland...
Back from his junket, Banker Mount returned to his old institution in Oakland, which was then actually two banks, Central National and Central Savings. National failed to reopen after the 1933 banking holiday, though Savings did. As president of Savings and conservator of National, Banker Mount dug in. National's depositors were paid off 100 cents on the dollar and Savings became rock-solid Central Bank of Oakland...
...Francisco the memory of Banker Mount's defection in the Transamerica battle is supposed to have burned on in the Giannini mind, as other unforgiven deeds of other Giannini enemies always did. Opportunity to reach across the Bay was opened by a widow, one of Central's founders, who turned over her chief asset, 2,314 shares in sound Central Savings, to the receiver for Central National to help make up her double liability on the stock of that closed bank. On a bid of $117.50 per share the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency awarded the stock...