giannini in A Sentence

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    George Bailey Giannini.

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    I'm not gonna let that fall apart because Giannini turns up alive.

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    Giannini was also the inspiration for a similar character in Capra's American Madness.

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    Much like the fictitious George Bailey, Giannini kept little for himself through all this.

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    After gathering the money, Giannini then took it outside of town, covered in garbage to protect it.

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    This technique was developed by and the studies directed by psychologist Robert E. Miller and psychiatrist A. James Giannini.

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    In order to cater to the working class, who typically worked very long hours, Giannini's banks stayed open until around 10pm every night.

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    Because so many had lost everything, including identification papers, Giannini gave these people loans based on nothing but a signature and a handshake.

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    Interestingly while the story was based on The Greatest Gift, the character of George Bailey was actually based partly on the founder of Bank of America, A.P. Giannini.

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    With $150,000 raised from various friends and family, Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in 1904, which would be a bank specializing in loaning money to the common man.

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    Because so many had lost everything including in many cases documentation on who they were, Giannini gave these people loans based on nothing but a signature and a handshake.

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    Because of this, Giannini came back to the United States and rallied various employees and depositors to him, with them buying shares in the bank until they owned the controlling interest.

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    Giannini is said to have wanted to create a nation-wide bank so that it would not be as vulnerable to a specific area's problems, something that banks of the day struggled with.

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    Rejecting calls to completely remake the street grid, San Franciscans opted for speed.[41] Amadeo Giannini's Bank of Italy, later to become Bank of America, provided loans for many of those whose livelihoods had been devastated.

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    Giannini never saw his dream of a full nation-wide bank happen, mostly due to certain laws preventing such a thing at the time, but his bank did eventually become the first bank to accomplish this when Bank of America merged with NationsBank.

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    Directly after the earthquake happened in the very early hours of the morning, Giannini went and sifted through the rubble of his building and gathered $2 million into a garbage man's wagon, owned by Giobatta Cepollina whose son would go on to work for Bank of America because of a promise made by Giannini to Cepollina in exchange for use of his wagon.

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