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...held various jobs around the Capitol for 17 years before he went over to the potent House Ways & Means Committee as janitor. At that time Chairman William McKinley, beaten in the 1890 elections, was packing up for Ohio. Mr. McKinley left his Bible for Harry. Years later Sereno Elisha Payne, chairman of the Committee during Taft's Administration, gave him his furniture. Oscar Underwood's legacy was a complete wardrobe including a big Stetson...
...guidance the AP had refused to argue the facts in the early stages of the Watson case and merely denied the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board. That some publishers thought Lawyer Davis had blundered was as obvious as a nosebleed when ANPA's general counsel, Elisha Hanson, reminded the ANPA convention that the Watson case had been presented to the Supreme Court "absolutely bare of any facts in the record before the court to disprove the allegation of a violation of the law by the petitioners...
...swimmers will attempt to keep their underclass status. Among the Crimson proposer who will be out to duplicate the feat of capturing eight out of nine first places will be Art Johnson, who broke the pool record in the 200-yard breaststroke, Charlie Hutter in the 50-yard freestyle, Elisha Greenhood in the diving, Captain Colony in the 100-yard free style, Frank Coleman in the 440, and Cummin in the back stroke...
...branch in California. Rio Grande soon slid to the brink of receivership and Oilman Sinclair denied that he had anything to do with the company. Just ten months later, however, Harry Sinclair's new Consolidated Oil Corp. acquired control of Rio Grande with the help of Elisha Walker's Interstate Equities Corp. in a deal which has since aroused the curiosity of the Securities & Exchange Commission. Thus, at about the time Richfield was succumbing to overexpansion and mismanagement, Sinclair got his first sizeable foothold in the California market...
There, directly beneath the Giannini throne, Banker Mount watched the start & finish of the Depression battle for control of Transamerica, which owns among many other things Bank of America. Protagonists in this historic struggle were Amadeo Peter Giannini and Elisha Walker, who entered Transamerica by way of its investment banking affiliate, Bancamerica-Blair, Mr. Walker having been head of the Blair part. Banker Walker and Banker Giannini differed on a fundamental point. It was Mr. Walker's theory that banks should be divorced from holding companies. Mr. Giannini had spent a great deal of effort doing just the opposite...