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Leading New Orleans bankers and State officials went into an all-night huddle. President Hecht, a swart, smallish man with glistening black hair and a thick cropped mustache, was in a tight fix. For years he fought branchbanking as "financial feudalism" and ''economic vassalage." Last autumn when he was elected second vice president of the American Bankers Association, thus assuring him of the presidency in 1935, he ate his words and said: "We cannot stem the tide of economic events." A Bavarian from Ansbach, he learned banking in Chicago, went to the Hibernia 26 years...
...leaky schooner, sent Son-in-Law D'Antoni to Central America for bananas. The venture was a little gold mine. Presently the Vaccaros bought a battered tramp steamer. Bananas boomed. The Vaccaros acquired a fleet of modern ships, bought up banana plantations in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua. Panama. Swart, stocky, with soft voices, the Vaccaros are now in their 70'$, are still known as shrewd traders. Until after the War they tended strictly to their banana business...
...from justice, gave up cigarets for cigars, swore off coffee. He told the police that he had heard of a kidnap plot being hatched against him in Chicago. Thereafter a carload of fat Athenian police on the lookout for "Chicago gangsters" trailed him. And always close behind him walked swart, stout Peter Vanech of Stamford, Conn., swinging a big stick, scowling ferociously. Wary of Greeks bearing gifts, Samuel Insull shook himself free of a crowd of hangers-on, hired an interpreter. He made numerous visits to the office of American Express Co., dined with President John C. Eliasco...
Back to Asia. The idea having been thus pedigreed (and U. S. observers admitted that it sounded very much like the ideas that used to emerge from the Oyster Bay rocking chair during the early years of the century), it was carried one step further last week by swart, smiling mustachioed Kaku Mori, leader of the younger faction of the chauvinistic Seiyukai Party. Mr. Mori is not now a Cabinet member. He could and did speak so freely to the Diet that a frightened cable censor hastily mangled the last part of his address while it was being sent...
...short, swart Gene Sarazen, open champion of Britain, open champion of the U. S., there remained this year only one more province of the professional golfing world to conquer-the U. S. professional championship (match play) which he has won two times since 1922. Last fortnight, officials of the Professional Golfers Association, eager to have Sarazen in the field, offered to qualify him automatically. Sarazen, against anything that might make his record less than perfect, declined. Last week he went to the Rockville Centre Country Club (L. I.) to play in the sectional qualifying round...