Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegation of local bigwigs, some 6,000 citizens and five women's fife & drum corps were waiting in Buffalo, N. Y.'s railroad station one morning last week when Nominee Alf M. Landon's special train rolled up to the turning point of his Eastern campaign tour. Nominee Landon, rid of his lingering pleurisy, waved his hat, cried "Hello everybody!" and singled out two small boys for special greeting. Stepping out of his way to shake their hands, he asked: "How do you do, little...
Edward M. Steel, Jr., of 119 Elk Avenue, N. Fayetteville, Tenn., Lincoln Country Central High School, Fayetteville; Robert G. Urquhart, of 2974 Helen Avenue, Detroit, Micln, Eastern High School, Detroit; Malcolm R. Wilkey, of 411 South Seminary, Madisonville, Ky., Madisonville High School; and Morton G. Wurtele, of 5832 Stony Island Avenue...
...Giannini system is not national branch banking, since each big bank confines its expansion to its own State. Transamerica functions not as a bank but as a holding company. Thus Transamerica keeps within the letter of the law of the 1935 Banking Act but cannot similarly invade most Eastern States where laws forbid State-wide branch banking. To unit (one-bank) bankers who violently oppose him as a financial monopolist, Banker Giannini says: "Under a unified banking system it will be possible to have the equivalent of an up-to-date central clearing house for the nation . . . and the status...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., largest private financial institution in the world, should, on 45 minutes notice suddenly be found to have liabilities substantially exceeding its assets, Eastern U. S. citizens would get some idea of the fantastic consternation Pacific Mutual's crash caused on the West Coast. Last year the 68-year-old company had policies amounting to $636,000,000, assets of $215,000,000, ranked No. 19 in the U. S. insurance lineup. To West Coast insurance, old Pacific Mutual was virtually what Amadeo Peter Gianninrs Bank of America is to West Coast banking...
...North America the name Anderson, Clayton & Co. can be found in Montreal, Boston, New Bedford, Providence, Charlotte, Greenville, Gastonia, Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Torreon. In South America the firm has affiliates in Buenos Aires, Lima, Asuncion, Sao Paulo and Recife. Its Far Eastern offices are in Bombay, Shanghai and Osaka. Its Egyptian branch is in Alexandria, its French branch in Le Havre. In Milan it does business as Lamar Fleming & Co., in Liverpool as D. F. Pennefather & Co. Its representatives are scattered from Goteborg, Sweden, to Barcelona, Spain; from Lodź Poland, to Oporto...