Word: hibernia
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Outside the hall, beyond range of the speakers, the air is cool. A streetlight gleams on the building next the Curley headquarters. A paint-flaked sign proclaims the name of the building outside the Curley front door; "Hibernia Bank...
...vice president shall accede to the first vice presidency and the first vice president shall accede to the presidency. U. S. Banking thus picks its official spokesman two years in advance. Many things have happened in the last two years?particularly to Rudolf S. Hecht, chairman of New Orleans' Hibernia National Bank, who was elected second vice president of the ABA in the dark autumn...
After the national banking moratorium which soon followed. Banker Hecht's old Hibernia Bank & Trust was not allowed to open wide. Curiously enough, that was about the best thing that ever happened to Mr. Hecht and his big bank. Reorganized with some fresh capital, the bank took out a national charter. Thus com pletely free of the State banking department, which was never averse to twisting the screws on Senator Long's order, Hibernia National has grown and prospered. And Banker Hecht has not even seen Huey Long for months...
Life started for him in Providence, R. I., 55 years ago on, as he is always ready to remind you, July 4. He trouped with his family, The Four Cohans, in "Jerry Cohan's Irish Hibernia" when he was nine. His sister Josie was billed as "America's Youngest and Most Graceful Skirt Dancer." "Master Georgie" was featured for his "violin tricks and tinkling tunes." Aged 13, George traveled the country in Peck's Bad Boy, grew inured to the beatings he had to take in every town from boys who were irked by the Peck...
Albert P. Imahorn, 36, manager of the New Orleans division of the R. F. C., was elected president of New Orleans' newly formed Hibernia National Bank, successor of Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. (saved once in February by a special one-day bank holiday, it was not able to open wide after the big bank holiday). Some $1,500,000 of R. F. C. money matched by an equal amount in stock subscriptions launched the new bank. It will be a national not a state bank like its predecessor. Thereby Hibernia will get out from under control of Louisiana...