Word: gianninis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd were George Giannini, Clark Gable, Mrs. E. L. Doheny, Gene Tunney, Adolph Bernard Spreckels, Joe Di Maggio, Rupert Hughes. Comedian Joe E. Brown gave his guests a box lunch in the grand stand. Cinemagent Zeppo Marx, whose brothers spent the day working in a picture called A Day at the Races, bet $1,000 on Chanceview. Cinemactress Simone Simon bet $2 on Grand Manitou. Paulette Goddard wore the black hat which she considers lucky. There were 13,000 cars in the 85-acre parking...
...Powell St. in San Francisco the memory of Banker Mount's defection in the Transamerica battle is supposed to have burned on in the Giannini mind, as other unforgiven deeds of other Giannini enemies always did. Opportunity to reach across the Bay was opened by a widow, one of Central's founders, who turned over her chief asset, 2,314 shares in sound Central Savings, to the receiver for Central National to help make up her double liability on the stock of that closed bank. On a bid of $117.50 per share the U. S. Comptroller...
With 600 shares of Central Bank which Transamerica had held for years, Banker Giannini now had a comfortable minority of nearly 3,000 of the 12,000 shares outstanding. Promptly Banker Giannini started to round up more, by last month driving the price to $450 bid. Thoroughly alarmed, Banker Mount & friends pooled their holdings of 6,491 shares-held control-agreeing not to sell to Mr. Giannini's Transamerica at any price. Banker Giannini offered $550 per share to the pool for enough stock to give him control, was reported to have offered as high...
Last week the stalemate was broken. Through an intermediary, Banker Giannini offered to 1) sell all his stock to the pool at $400 per share or 2) buy all the pool's stock at $400 per share. Weary Mr. Mount & friends decided to sell out. Preparing to retire to an office in San Francisco's Russ Building next year, there to "watch the wheels go round," Mr. Mount explained his acceptance: "I'm not going to have Giannini gunning for me for the rest of my life." Said his wife: "I wonder what...
...Also north to Oregon stretched the Giannini hand last week for three little banks with total resources...