Word: traditionalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Avery Rockefeller, Messrs. Giannini & Neylan will speak for National City's largest stockholder, Transamerica Corp., of which Mr. Giannini is the rambunctious chairman. Transamerica acquired its block of nearly 600,000 shares when it sold Manhattan's old Bank of America to National City in 1931. No traditionalist, Banker Giannini, whose Bank of America, N. T. & S. A. (San Francisco) has 411 branches up & down California, promptly loosed a blast in favor of Federal guarantee of bank deposits, which most bankers view with gravest alarm...
...Author. Although his father was Lord Carnock of Carnock his mother was a Rowan Hamilton of County Down. Perhaps because he has Irish blood in him Harold George Nicolson is not the dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist his heredity and training meant him to be. Besides, his wife is Victoria Sackville-West-who, though one of the Sackvilles of Knole Castle, is a novelist of parts, her influence therefore subversive of public-school tradition. Through the regular mill of Oxford, crammer's school and Foreign Office, Harold Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more...
...frankly, the Vagabond is not happy in his new lodgings, even the men who paint his tower have conspired to make him blue. The youngsters round about him seem happy, but the sound of insular accents and the sight of foreign customs are too much for an old traditionalist. And so, as the bells come in, the Vagabond goes out, back to Memorial Hall, that symbol of an old-and-not-to-be-despised Harvard...
Author Frangois Mauriac, 42, militant Catholic traditionalist, poet, essayist, novelist, is a native of Bordeaux who went to Paris as a young man to lead the literary life. One of his books, Desert of Love, was crowned by the Académie FranÇhise. Other books: Thérèse, Destiny...