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...Kentucky, in the Sash family, when the Civil War was getting itself ready. When fighting began, there were Sashes in both armies. Wickliffe Sash, a captain in Morgan's raiders, got home for the last time to see his fiancee, found her in love with a Yankee officer. Elisha Abel, Wickliffe's cousin, was luckier. A Federal major, he came unscathed through the fighting in Tennessee, brought home a pretty wife to his Kentucky estate...
More than one potent California banker bridled angrily, sure that he was the "certain competitor" accused by Mr. Giannini. But well-informed observers paid little heed. Mr. Giannini, 60 and retired, is no longer official spokesman for Transamerica, having been succeeded a year ago by astute Elisha Walker of New York. And while it is true that there has been a large professional short interest in Transamerica stock, Wall Street has not been conscious of any great golden California bear in its menagerie. Embarrassing as it might have been for Transamerica's active management, the Giannini outburst - made...
Chairman of General Telephone & Electric's executive committee will be Elisha Walker, Chairman of Transamerica's executive committee. Last week he expounded the reasons that make this deal logical, reasons realized by Ivar Kreuger when he bought into Ericcson Telephone, a similar deal. Said Mr. Walker somewhat verbosely: "It deserves to be noted that in an era distinguished not infrequently by industrial overproduction, there has been no excess of production by manufacturing plants producing the requirements of telephonic communications systems overseas. . . . We may anticipate, I believe, a continuing development in telephonic communications overseas...
...Lawyer Samuel Untermyer was bending his gaze on the Fox dilemma. Lawyer Untermyer had already dismissed a reorganization plan devised by Halsey, Stuart & Co., calling it "a mere gesture to force the company into receivership. . . ." Nor did he show any signs of meek capitulation to a plan suggested by Elisha Walker's Bancamerica-Blair &- Co. and Clarence H. Dillon. A lawyer who has worsted Charles Evans Hughes (Manhattan traction case), who wears orchids with impunity, he may well seem soothing to his harassed client...
Elected. Hunter S. Marston, 44; to be president of Bancamerica-BIair Corp.; to succeed Elisha Walker, lately elected board chairman of Transamerica Corp...