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...Tribune's news bomb fizzled harmlessly when word leaked out that a committee of Continental Illinois directors had settled on a bank chairman of their own. He was George Alfred Ranney, long-time treasurer of International Harvester, since last May assistant to James Simpson in the job of cleaning up the Insull operating companies...
...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...
George Alfred Ranney, vice president of International Harvester, author of some of its clear, frank financial statements, director of Chicago's First National Bank, and great, golf-playing friend of Melvin Traylor, accepted an offer to become vice chairman and financial head of Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas Light & Coke, Public Service of Northern Illinois-posts recently held by Samuel Insull...
...unusual for an officer of a company to assure shareholders regarding a future dividend. Usually the assurance turns out to have been well founded, as when last autumn Vice President George A. Ranney of International Harvester Co. said the dividend would be held at $2.50. But sometimes an officer speaks in order to help the price of the stock or before sounding out the directorate. Lately, shareholders have become wary of official statements. Last week their remaining faith received another jolt. On Sept. 29, fresh from Europe, President Simon Guggenheim of American Smelting & Refining Co. told reporters: "In consideration...