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...Bank of Italy. Stoutest of all advocates of branch banking is Amadeo Peter Giannini, and classic example of a bank-with-branches is the Giannini-founded, Giannini-expanded Bank of Italy National Trust & Savings Association. California-wide institution. Last week it was revealed that soon Bank of Italy will succumb to the same forces of expansion and merging which it created. As soon as details are worked out, Bank of Italy will merge with Bank of America of California, newer Giannini institution. The new bank will be called Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, will have resources...
...absorption in this process of acquiring more things is as silly as the preoccupation of the middle ages with theological argument. . . . We must learn the secret of doing things not for people, but with people. ... If such an appreciation cannot be built up in the world, the nations will succumb to the Russian idea. There is something moving in Russia, and we have got to get ahead...
...during which statistics were available, the important point is the rapidity with which it has been lowered with the passing of each decade. Twenty years before the turn of the century, the Harvard athlete in comparison with the average non-college man was a thirteen to ten bet to succumb to the grim reaper before the great mass of people not engaged in strenuous competition; it is now a four to five proposition that he will not attain greater longevity than the other...
Some 60,000 packed the Stadium Saturday afternoon and watched Harvard battle the Indians on even terms during the first half, succumb to the wizardry of Masters running in the third period and then wilt miserably under the final onslaughts of the Hanover forces. In the first quarter Marsters' work brought the ball from his team's 37-yard stripe, where he received a punt, to the 4-yard line, whence Sutton went over for the score. The Crimson reversed the order of things in the second period. B. Ticknor, after catching a Green dropkick, advanced to Harvard...
...wants no anonymity of accomplishment. But he does not like business details. He is primarily an engineer. Many a Sikorsky order, many a deal, has been delayed by Inventor Sikorsky's futile enthusiasm for improvement, remodeling. He is almost the last of the big independent designers to succumb to the industry's merger movement...