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...Central Bank.*Just 30 years later, he was named Central Bank president after bossing branch banks in Madera, Visalia, Fresno, Modesto and Stockton. As a smalltown banker, much of his time was spent on horseback, riding with the ranchers, digging up business, just as young A.P. used to tramp the furrows behind plowing farmers. A deep-voiced six-footer who talks the farmer's language, Wente's most frequent injunction to underlings is "Give 'em action! No monkeying around . . ." That was the kind of language the directors liked; they called him back as president from semiretirement...
...time Adam got to the Salinas Valley, he had done two hitches in the Army, bummed around the country as a tramp, escaped from a Florida chain gang. and picked up a lot of humility. He also brought to California half his father's considerable fortune and Cathy, a beautiful blonde wife...
...followed. The Communists climbed out of their foxholes and marched home. On the Soviet side the Vopos resumed their ceaseless patrols. On the West, farmers who had watched the "battle" with bated breath, sighed over a damaged crop of hay, flattened with the wheels of armored cars and the tramp of marching...
Born in the Channel Islands, Haley quit school at 16 to go to sea as a telegrapher on a tramp steamer. Later, he cubbed on a provincial paper, did his brief stint on the Times and went up to Manchester to become a reporter on the Evening News. In a short time he was named news editor. He disdained a desk, worked standing up at a breast-high table so he would lose no time dashing off to composing room or editor's office. His nose for news was so sharp that, at 29, he was named editor...
During his reign in the '20s and '30s, Prince Mike was sometimes broke enough to sleep on park benches, but often as not he was to be found weekending with the very rich on Long Island or at Newport, a majestic little tramp, a peerless raconteur, an engaging and enigmatic character who read a great deal, played excellent chess and, when sober, was a perfect gentleman...