Business & Finance: Old A. P.

You do not spend the second 30 years of your life building a little Italian bank into the fourth richest in the U. S.—and keeping it—without making enemies. Toward his, San Francisco's Amadeo Peter Giannini is popularly credited with a temper to match that of the elder J. P. Morgan. Last week it seemed to San Franciscans that, for reasons not wholly clear, old Amadeo was out gunning for Frank Shaughnessy, president of the San Francisco Stock Exchange.

Leading up to this supposed vendetta was one of the most important changes in the West...

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