Word: nini
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...booking passage home again. Walker had publicly announced that the books of Transamerica were padded with good will, inflated evaluations of subsidiary companies; that Giannini's $1,100,000,000 estimate of its worth was $800 million too high. He had sold the New York banks, booted Gian nini men out of Transamerica, was preparing to shuck off Bank of America...
...Bank's Charles Mitchell and Chase National Bank's Albert Wiggin for the title of the nation's biggest bank. Chase won out, via mergers with other banks, and held its lead till three months ago. Then a brash West Coast upstart, old A. P. Gian nini's Bank of America, pushed past...
Sviatoslav ("Nini") Stravinsky, pianist son of the composer, plays in Paris. Composer-Pianist Francis Poulenc has toured with a tenor, is preparing a ballet. French orchestras and the Paris opera give regular performances...
...hair white in a single act. No Tannhäuser was its central protagonist, but mad King Ludwig of Bavaria (Wagner's patron), who reared and reeled in the costume of Lohengrin. Before him, like something sired by George White out of Krafft-Ebing, pranced a bleached Venus (Nini Theilade), a hoop-pantalooned Lola Montez (Ludwig's grandfather's mistress) with a belt of false teeth, Mr. and Mrs. Sacher Masoch in riding breeches, and enough assorted subconscious erotica to strain the limbo of an experienced psychopath. Meanwhile, at one side of the stage, a moribund, vine...
...such a contingency year and a half ago by rearranging Transamerica's stock so it could be switched quickly to an investment trust. It was on this realignment that SEC last week cracked down with 18 specific charges, from "creation of fictitious reserves" to paying Banker Gian nini some $700,000 instead of the $1 a year he reported. Flatly denying this salary accusation, Transamerica last week claimed that the other charges were "based entirely on a theory of accounting...