Word: gianninis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Women's Gymnasium and many a scholarship. Across the stage of the famed Greek theatre runs the legend: THE GIFT OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. Two sons of Publisher Hearst, who also gave the Mining Building, matriculated at California: George and William Randolph Jr. From Banker Amadeo Pe ter Giannini (Bancamerica-Blair) came the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. From Miss Ellen Browning Scripps (Scripps-Howard newspapers) came the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Soon to be opened is an international house?similar to one in Manhattan and to one abuilding at the University of Chicago? the $1,800,000 gift...
...said he would do, Amadeo Peter Giannini, potent branch banker, founder of Transamerica Corp. (world's biggest bankstock holding company), upon arriving last week at the age of 60, resigned from all his far-flung enterprises. Testifying before the House Banking & Currency Committee, said he: "Branch banking is coming and you can't stop it. You can't block economic progress. You're against a stone wall. Small communities are drying up. They don't need small unit banks. Farmers drive over paved roads to the larger cities to do their banking...
Amadeo Peter Giannini, founder of Bank of Italy, went with his wife and son to Mayo Brothers' clinic at Rochester. Minn., for a thoroughgoing physical examination...
...drawing cards, have lost considerable ground. Basso Feodor Chaliapin no longer "sells." His last minimum fee of $3,500 was too high to permit managers making money. Other names which count for less in dollars and cents are the Singers Frieda Hempel, Anna Case, Sophie Braslau, Louise Homer, Dusolina Giannini, Mabel Garrison, Reinald Werrenrath, Louis Graveure, Pianist Josef Lhevinne, Violinist Mischa Elman. Violinist Jascha Heifetz had also started to slip. The public found him cold, expressionless. But since his marriage to Cinemactress Florence Vidor his concert manner has warmed, his box-office value increased. Conversely, names which will be worth...
Resigned. Amadeo Peter Giannini, founder of Bank of Italy; from the presidency and chairmanship of Transamerica Corp. Elisha Walker will succeed him as chairman; his son, Lawrence Mario Giannini, as president...