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...prestige. Felix Warburg, last of the old partners, acts today mostly as an adviser. Jerome Jones Hanauer, Jacob Schiff's trusted "inside man," retired last year. Sir William Wiseman is a Briton who has been a partner only five years. Today much of the work is done by Elisha Walker, onetime ally of Amadeo Peter Giannini, and by able Benjamin Buttenwieser, who, as manager of the firm's syndicate department, is considered one of the most brilliant young men in Wall Street...
When Amadeo Peter Giannini retired in 1930, his Transamerica Corp. rested on two great piers, with a continent between- Bank of America in San Francisco and Bank of America in Manhattan. His successor as Transamerica's chairman, Elisha Walker, soon sold the Manhattan pier to National City Bank. From the depths of his retirement Amadeo Peter Giannini, growing mightily alarmed over the future of his handiwork and his name as No. 1 branch banker of the U. S., emerged in an historic proxy battle to regain control (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Last week Transamerica published its annual report...
Thirteen old Armour directors were re-elected and eight new men added to the board. Four of the new directors represented the Prince interests-Elisha Walker of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Lawyer Weymouth Kirkland, James A. McDonough and Banker Prince. Two represented Mr. Ulman-Mr. Ulman and his lawyer. The election of the other two marked the reentry of the Armours into Armour & Co. They were Lester Armour and his brother Philip Danforth...
...Died. Elisha Lee, 62, vice president of Pennsylvania R. R.; after collapsing upon alighting from a train; in Manhattan. He was slated to succeed President William Wallace Atterbury who, now 66, awaits retirement...
...other partners were admitted last January: Hugh Knowlton, onetime vice president of the Manhattan Co.'s International Acceptance Bank, and Elisha Walker, once allied with Amadeo Peter Giannini who later ousted him as head of famed Transamerica Corp. As novices in K. L. they can, however, tell the Senate little, though they know well the general business of the house they serve, a house that stands next to Morgan in reputation but that is apt to tackle different jobs...