Word: penick
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Twin City's main link to the Clintons was Margaret Davenport, an executive vice president, a close friend of Hillary's and a generous Clinton campaign contributor. Margaret was the bank's principal line of communications to the Governor, through Hillary, and Penick had been relying on Davenport to press the branch-banking issue in her periodic lunches with the state's first lady. Davenport had got to know Hillary when she first came to town in the late 1970s; they were among the few professional women in Little Rock at the time. As Governor, Clinton appointed...
Dewey's argument seemed to make the board nervous. Clinton was, after all, the Governor. Edward M. Penick, president of Twin City and ex-officio chairman of 1st Ozark, said he'd take up the matter personally. He knew Hillary somewhat; Hillary and the Rose firm had successfully represented Twin City in a complicated bond case. Penick drafted the letter and sent it to Hillary at the Rose firm...
...Penick had a far more important matter pending with the state government: the extension of branch banking. Arkansas' banking law, dating from Reconstruction, prohibited bank branches anywhere beyond the city limits of the city where the bank was incorporated; this was a populist measure designed to encourage and protect small, local banks and their communities and prevent statewide domination by the bigger banks in Little Rock. Branch banking was the single most important issue on the Twin City political agenda, because the bank was incorporated in North Little Rock. All it could do was gaze enviously at its rivals across...
...MASTER Ben Crenshaw hadn't won a major tournament since the '84 Masters, his putting stroke had left him, and he teed off at Augusta the day after bearing mentor Harvey Penick's casket. But with Penick as spiritual caddy, the reverential Crenshaw won golf's most revered tourney...