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Many a U.S. businessman has wished that he was big enough to get in to see Elisha Walker in his official habitat: the austere offices of Wall Street's famed international banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of which he is senior partner. Stiff-starched Banker Walker is not an easy...
...Elisha Walker has long been accustomed to dealing in sums ending in six zeroes and with such titans of finance and industry as Harry F. Sinclair (oil), Frederick H. Prince (railroads), Eugene G. Grace (steel), Amadeo P. Giannini (banks), Joseph P. Kennedy (whiskey, real estate), and Bernard M. Baruch (investments and advice to Presidents...
...Royal Technical Institute of Bologna, was hired away from the Columbus Savings & Loan Society where he was a teller. Later, after he had hit the top in A. P.'s organization (president of National Bankitaly Co., Bankitaly Co. America, Corp. of America), he joined up with the Elisha Walker group which tried to take over Transamerica in 1931. By the time the plan had failed, old A. P. was glad to forget Armando Pedrini, who retired. Pedrini died in 1940, aged...
Almost everybody except the candidates and the P.A.C. was bored with Alabama's primary campaign. One candidate afforded a spark of interest and amusement. He was 37-year-old James Elisha ("Big Jim") Folsom, a 6 ft. 8 in. shouter of tall promises, who campaigned for the governorship with a five-piece hillbilly band, a mop and a bucket ("to clean up the State Capitol"), and P.A.C.'s blessing. He had run for various offices four times, had been elected only once-to be a delegate to the 1944 Democratic National Convention (where he plunked for Henry Wallace...
...made one big mistake. In 1930, confident that his empire was secure, he retired. In his search for a successor he hit upon a Wall Street man, well-starched, dignified, M.I.T.-educated Elisha Walker of Blair & Co., turned over control to him, departed for Europe...