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Ten years after it was founded, Bank of America moved to Greenwich Village because of the yellow fever raging in the Wall Street district. It soon moved back to its old site and has been there ever since. In 1908 National City Bank moved to the corner diagonally opposite Bank...
The story of Manufacturers Trust Co. is not so serene as the story of Mr. Gibson. Founded in Brooklyn in 1905 as Citizens Trust Co. by the Jewish Nathan S. Jonas, it was the first Brooklyn bank to invade Manhattan. By June 1930 it had 45 units in Greater New...
During the past fortnight the following changes were news: William Fox, onetime cinemagnate (1906-30), was dropped from the board of Fox Film Corp., now Chase-dominated. By contract he retains a $500,000-a-year salary until 1935. A new Fox director whose election was a surprise was David...
In Louisville last April, says Editor Edward A. Jonas of the Louisville Herald-Post, were many, a great many, piteously at loose ends, pathetically seeking guidance. ... A personal feud had ruined great institutions, closed banks, precipitated a general bankruptcy. And still its fury raged. . . .' "
* Among them: Mrs. Frederick Brown, wife of the Manhattan realtor, Mrs. Ralph Jonas, wife of Director Jonas of Manufacturers' Trust Co. of New York, Banker Jules Bache, Board Chairman Ludwig Vogelstein of American Metal Co., Banker Lewis Strauss of Manhattan.