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...October 1928, burly Amadeo Peter ("A. P.") Giannini clearly asserted his intention of throwing a network of banks across the U. S. when he named his bank holding company Transamerica Corp. That year the No. 1 U. S. branch banker was well on his way toward his goal, with 2,000,000 loyal depositors, mostly of Italian origin, in a formidable lineup of banks in California, New York and Italy. Already he had begun nosing into Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis and New Orleans, dabbling in the security trading business through Bancitaly Corp...
...June 1928, while visiting in Italy, "A. P." Giannini was reported to have a paralytic stroke. San Francisco rumor had him dead and Bancitaly stock dropped 100 points in three weeks. His frightened right-hand man, Leo Belden, hastily obtained the support of Manhattan bankers at a stiff price. By the time Giannini somewhat recovered, reappeared in Manhattan, he was obliged to put a bold face on his troubles by announcing that he had picked Elisha Walker, head of the old, eminent and sage private banking house of Blair & Co. as his successor. Year later Giannini retired, making Mr. Walker...
...Pickford took over as provisional president. Last week United Artists owners-Miss Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin and British Producer Alexander Korda's delegate, Murray Silverstone-sat down in Hollywood to pick a boss. Favored candidates were Pickford and Silverstone. Instead the owners elected Dr. Attilio Henry Giannini...
Overshadowed by his older brother, Amadeo Peter Giannini, head of Transamerica Corp., Attilio Giannini had quietly grown into a unique relationship with the cinema industry. Cut out to be a doctor, he took his M.D. at the University of California, doctored 6,000 Negro troops stationed at San Francisco's Presidio during the Spanish-American War, worked day & night through the terror of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, nearly died of typhus. Meanwhile Brother Amadeo's bank, having been demolished in the earthquake, moved into Attilio's house. When he recovered from typhus, Attilio became manager...
...director and executive committee chairman and moved into the position of financial godfather to the cinema industry. Cinemagnates went to him first for loans and advice, called him "Doc," credited him with having settled more cinema wrangles than all the law courts of California. Last week Dr. Giannini declared: "I've just started getting paid for what I've been doing for years...