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Banker's BankerOne day the legendary banker Amadeo Peter Giannini (whose Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association weathered the Depression and become the largest privately owned bank in the world) asked a distinguished looking grey-haired gentleman to get him a taxi. When the man dutifully obliged, Giannini gave him a quarter. The recipient, clearly embarrassed, explained that he was the head of the Los Angeles Bank of America. Giannini duly apologised, took back the quarter, and gave him a dollar.
[Trivia: Giannini's father, a farmer, died when A.P. was seven - in a fight over a dollar.]
Giannini, Amadeo Peter (1870-1949) American banker, founder of the Bank of Italy (1904), the Transamerica Corporation (holding company, 1928), and the Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association (1930) [noted for his liberal lending policies, which encouraged the development of California's agricultural and motion picture industries]
[Sources: J.K. Galbraith, A Life in Our Time]More Amadeo Giannini anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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