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John William Pole, Comptroller of the Currency, was recently in San Francisco. Up and down Montgomery Street brokers and bankers guessed that his visit was to bring a halt to the running fight which Amadeo Peter ("A. P."; Giannini was waging on Elisha Walker. Financial re- porters sensed a big scoop when Mr. Pole summoned them to his office in the Federal Reserve Building. But when they arrived he gravely told newshawks he was sorry but he had nothing to say after...
...fight began as a conflict of personalities. There was less reason for Amadeo Peter Giannini and Elisha Wralker to get along than there was for them to differ. If you like and respect Elisha Walker, who is always neatly dressed and who was born to society and Wall Street, who gives an impression of careful, methodical methods, you may distrust the attitudes of Mr. Giannini. If you like "A. P.," a big blustery fellow who does not give a hang how his clothes hang, who has known manual labor, who gives a jovial shout when he sees you coming down...
...Kane's sons, Professor Elisha Kent Kane of the University of Tennessee, lost his young wife by drowning, was accused of causing her death (TIME, Oct. 5). A jury found him not guilty. He resigned his professorship...
...many a month Wall Street has known that "Something has to be done about Transamerica." Last week the big holding company's 217,000 shareholders received a lengthy letter from their bustling chairman, Elisha Walker. It told what will be done about Transamerica...
...Collings mys tery very funny. . . . Everyone was so casual and friendly. I found policemen with their coats off, their feet up on the desk, talking freely and smoking. . . . There were ten reporters on the story and everyone of them helped me." Subsequent assignments last week: an interview with Prof. Elisha Kent Kane, accused of uxoricide; a visit to the vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank to look at $2,000,000,000 in gold...