Word: wachovia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years small-town bankers have badgered their big-city brothers for more rural A. B. A. presidents. This year they got their candy. Wachovia is a small-town bank. But no hayseed is Wachovia's able President Hanes. As much at home in Wall Street as in Winston-Salem, he is a big-city banker in a small town...
...dried is the election of A. B. A. presidents. Anything but cut-&-dried is its newest one, Robert March Hanes, 49, president of Winston-Salem, N. C.'s Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. (largest bank between Washington and Atlanta; deposits: $91,000,000). Fond of quail shooting, lively parties, buzzing about, he has sat in both General Assembly and Senate of his State Legislature. For years he rode a motorcycle to the bank every day. Once it got away from him, ripped through his wife's pet flower bed. Evaded he: "Mildred, some damn fool has torn up your...
...Cabell, Armour & Co.; President Charles A. Cannon, Cannon Mills Co.; Chairman Walter J. Cummings, Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co.; President Edward D. Duffield, Prudential Insurance Co. of America; Chairman Frederick H. Ecker, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; President John M. Franklin, International Mercantile Marine Co.; President Robert M. Hanes, Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.; President Robert Wood Johnson, Johnson & Johnson; President Sydney G. McAllister,International Harvester Co.; President Thomas I. Parkinson, Equitable Life Assurance Society; Chairman William C. Potter, Guaranty Trust Co.; Chairman S. Clay Williams, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Chairman Clarence M. Woolley, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp...
...line to follow President Adams is 55-year-old Philip Adolphus Benson, president of Brooklyn's Dime Savings Bank and therefore on the unit banker side. Elected second vice president last week was Robert March Hanes, president of Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. A 47-year-old graduate of the University of North Carolina, he comes of a socially prominent family, is a Democrat and a Methodist, saw active service in the War. He was chosen for his important heirship-apparent largely because he is a fine example of the important, but independent, banker...
...most of that part of Winston-Salem which the Grays and Reynolds do not. Brother James, onetime Mayor of the city, is head of Hanes Hosiery Mills, one of the largest rayon hosiery concerns in the South. Brother Robert is president of Winston-Salem's biggest bank, Wachovia Bank & Trust. Brother Ralph is head of Hanes Dye & Finishing Co. Brother Alex handles Winston-Salem's biggest brokerage accounts as head of the Chas. D. Barney branch. Brother Frederick moved a few miles away to Duke University, where he is head of the medical department...