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When the 1910 merger took place, George M. Reynolds was president of the Continental factory. His first banking job had been at Panora, Iowa, where he had charge of the broom and polish rag. He flourished; made his banking way to Des Moines, then to Chicago. President Taft in 1909 wanted him for secretary of the treasury. He refused. George is known as the quickest and the firmest to say yes or no to a banking matter...
...Panora younger Arthur, with another brother, had founded a drugstore business. But Arthur saw George beating a road to bank success and abandoned mortar and pestle to pound down the road that his elder was making before...