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...Italy) 41 years ago, A.P. has had his hard eyes on this goal. The son of a San Jose (Calif.) farmer, he had made enough money in the commission business and real estate to retire at the age of 31. He soon went back to work, via a bank directorship he inherited from his dead father-in-law. When his ideas for liberalizing the bank's methods shocked his conservative fellow directors, Giannini started his own bank...
...Rainey's long-standing squabble with the Regents has sometimes flared into the open: in 1942 three economics instructors were dropped by the Regents against his advice for expressing opinions ";unbecoming a faculty member"; in 1943 Arthur L. Brandon, a Rainey appointee, was summarily fired from his publicity directorship, without charges and without a hearing. But mostly it has been a private battle...
...officers orchestra and glee club under the directorship of company Commander O. B. Dahie entertained NTS men, their wives, Cliffedwellers, and Sundry V-12ers at a swing-sing session held before Memorial Church Tuesday night. A program conducted by Lt. (jg) O'Neill included a rendition of "Brazil," choral arrangements of "Eight Bells," "Old Man Noah," "The Song of Peace," and "Anchors Aweigh," and a solo of "People Will Think We're in Love," by S.O. Pete Francati. O'Neill of the Welfare and Recreation Office was responsible for this initial success, but was aided by the originators...
Under Harvey's directorship, the Council committee conducted a test case against the radio concern by submitting to it for repairs a radio one of whose tubes it had partially removed in advance. The committee alleges that so far as it knew the set was otherwise in good working condition, and that nevertheless a bill for repairs of $6,35 was presented...
Unlike his night-blooming colleague, meticulous Robert Stevenson, 36, moved into his directorship with the precision of a mathematics teacher. Son of an English businessman, he took a "first" in mathematics at Cambridge University. A postgraduate thesis on the psychology of the cinema got him so interested in the subject that he persuaded Gaumont-British to take him on as a reader...