Word: crockers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Hancock Mutual, eighth largest U. S. life company, lost President Walton Lee Crocker last January, elected its gen eral counsel, Guy Wilbur Cox, to succeed him. President Cox is a member of a no table family. Brother Channing Harris Cox was a Republican Governor of Massachusetts from 1921 to 1924, now heads Bos ton's famed Old Colony Trust Co. Brother Louis Sherburne Cox sits on the Massachusetts Superior Bench. Brother Walter Randall Cox lives in Goshen, N. Y., is the most famed trainer of trotting horses in the U. S. In one Hambletonian, Goshen trotting classic, four...
...repairman. To George Everson, well-to-do San Francisco bachelor, he submitted his scheme for electronic television, no blueprints. When radio engineers assured Mr. Everson that the Farnsworth idea seemed feasible, he put up money for experiments, got addi tional backing from officials of San Fran cisco's Crocker First National Bank. Hard-working young Farnsworth twice threw equipment worth $25,000 out the window, started over again. Finally successful demonstrations were made at Phila delphia's Franklin Institute. Philco Radio &; Television Corp. bought U. S. rights (not exclusive) to manufacture Farns worth equipment, has lately started...
...Crocker First National never loses money, has resources of $142,000,000, handles in addition to the Crocker oil, real estate and railroad interests such lucrative accounts as Matson Navigation, Pacific Gas & Electric, Standard Oil of California, Hawaiian Pineapple. Its dividend rate is $14 and its stock sells for $300 per share...
...same day, at the same hour, that Crocker directors were naming Willie Crocker as his father's successor, another meeting was held four blocks away at No. 1 Powell St. to up another banker's son to another banking presidency. The father: Amadeo Peter Giannini. The son : Lawrence Mario Giannini. The presidency: Bank of America's. Except for parentage, promotion and position, the parallel stopped there...
...Southern Pacific's "Big Four" were Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington...