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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...
...came .an end to all stories that hostilities would cease. It was to be war to the end. That end was to be Feb. 15, when in person and by proxy the owners of a gigantic holding company, Transamerica, will gather in Wilmington, Del. to vote. Last week Mr. Giannini, still campaigning, continued to claim that his white proxies represented a majority. Silently confident that their blue proxies would win were the Walker group...
...Attilio H. Giannini, brother of Amadeo Peter Giannini, was appointed chairman of the executive committee of Bank of America, N. T. & S. A. (California). Chairman of Bank of America, N. A. (Manhattan), Dr. Giannini is also vice president of Transamerica Corp, He resigned his directorship in the holding company recently (TIME, Oct. 5) when it was decided that executives of controlled banks should not be on the Transamerica board as well...
...Bank of America, including Preserved Fish who became director in 1812, it fell behind National City in size and prestige. In 1928 it was believed that Nathan Jonas of Manufacturers Trust and his brother, Ralph, were negotiating for control of the institution. Unexpected was the announcement that Amadeo Peter Giannini of California had grabbed large blocks of the stock. With these opening wedges, Banker Giannini was able to place control of the bank in Transamerica...
...Founder Giannini likewise denounced the dividend omission, the writedowns, the plans to sell the banks. As usual he spoke of "enemies" who wanted Bank of America for their own purposes. He also charged that when (last June) Transamerica's stock was made of no par value Mr. Walker had made use of proxies not granted to him for this purpose. In San Francisco a stockholders protective committee was formed, and while Founder Giannini denied he had started it he talked of throwing his "full force" behind it. But observers saw little chance of a proxy battle. While the protective...