Word: ranney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged, Gaylord Donnelley, 24, son of Chairman Thomas Elliott Donnelley of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (Chicago printers) ; and Dorothy Ranney, 25, daughter of George Alfred Ranney, Chicago utilities man, finance committee member and one-time vice president of International Harvester Co.; in Chicago...
...worth of preferred stock, twice the amount held by its other stockholders. A month ago Continental Illinois' directors, still guilelessly believing that Mr. Jones did not want to interfere in the bank, set out to pick a new chairman. They settled on George Alfred Ranney, onetime treasurer of International Harvester, now vice chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co. Then they got a shock. From Washington sped a report that Walter Joseph Cummings, head of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., was to have the job (TIME, Dec. 25). Again Mr. Jones repeated his promises, but by last week Continental Illinois knew that...
...George A. Ranney, once International Harvester treasurer, now acting as vice chairman and clean-up man of the ex-Insull Commonwealth Edison Co. of Chicago, who had been invited to chairman Chicago's Continental Illinois National (TIME, Dec. 25), last week wrote a letter to the bank's directors disclosing that: 1) the Federal Reserve Board had given approval for Mr. Ranney's election; 2) the RFC had been asked by letter for similar approval but had never answered. It was so evident last week that the RFC intended to put in Chairman Cummings of Deposit Insurance...
...turn of the century the late Cyrus Hall McCormick was looking for a cashier for his reaper company. He sent an emissary to fetch George Ranney, 24, a teller in the Chicago branch of the Bank of Montreal. Said young Ranney: "If Mr. McCormick wants to see me. let him come over to the bank." So the great Cyrus, in his sideburns and full dignity, marched into the bank and took Teller Ranney away with him. In time Mr. Ranney became Harvester's financial expert, was given credit for Harvester's lucid financial statements, became (and still...
Today tall, iron-grey haired and handsome, George Ranney (along with many a socialite McCormick, Wendell. Morton. Palmer) has an apartment at No. 1260 Astor Street and plays middling and sometimes mildly profane golf with his friend Melvin Traylor of Chicago's First National, of which he is a director and member of the executive committee. But unlike many a Chicago tycoon who got drenched in the downpour of Depression odium, George Ranney has come through with his reputation unaspersed. Last week Mr. Ranney discreetly held his peace while Continental directors waited until the RFC's approval should...