Notes for Charles Bismark Ames, Oklahoma Federal Judge:
American Rhetoric: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -- Statement at the Smith Act Trial
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Statement at the Smith Act Trail delivered on April 24, 1952 in New York
MISS FLYNN: Your Honor, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. I am a defendant in this case, acting as my own attorney, and therefore have the opportunity to address you directly. It is unusual for a defendant to represent one's self, but my comrade, Mr. Pettis Perry and I have elected to do so. Neither of us is a lawyer. We will speak to you in the language of laymen and women, I should say.
We are both Communist leaders, proudly and avowedly. We are qualified to explain to you what the Communist Party of the U.S.A. really stands for, what it advocates, what its day-by-day activities are, and what are its ultimate aims. We will try to do so in simple, non-technical language. We will prove to you that we are not a criminal conspiracy but a 33-year-old working class political party, devoted to the immediate needs and aspirations of the American people, to the advancement of the workers, farmers and the Negro people, to the preservation of the democracy and culture, and to the advocacy of Socialism.
Our ideas may be new and strange to you. Probably you have never seen or met a Communist before. We don't ask you to agree with us but to listen with an open mind and not to accept as gospel truth the sensational tales of stool-pigeons and planted agents who will be the Government's chief, if not sole, witnesses.
Centuries ago, Judas became the symbol of such infamy, a forerunner of those who join a group of sincere and honest people, advocate its teachings, carry out its practices only to betray it. * * * * * * * * * MISS FLYNN: We will prove to you that we who stand ready to make extreme sacrifices for what we believe, are giving you a true picture of the purposes of the Communist Party. It is customary for a client to be introduced to the jury by his or her attorney. I am my own attorney. I must therefore, introduce myself. I am an American of Irish decent. My father, Thomas Flynn, was born in Maine. My mother, Anne Gurley, was born in Galway, Ireland. I was born in Concord, New Hampshire, 62 years ago.
I married in 1908, separated from my husband shortly thereafter, and have always used my own name. My only son, Fred, died in 1940 at the age of 29 from a chest cancer. I reside with my sister, who is a retired school teacher. We have lived in New York City for the past 52 years. My mother was a skilled tailoress; my father a quarry worker who worked his way through the engineering school at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. My father, grandfather, and all my uncles were members of labor unions. * * * * * * * * * * * MISS FLYNN: To continue, ladies and gentlemen, one of the essential issues in this case is my individual intent, the intent with which I joined the Communist Party and have remained a member of it, and the intent with which I have tried to carry out its program. My intent has been shaped out of my earlier experiences and my reaction to the conditions of life, especially the conditions of the worker.
By showing you what my intent is and what in my life shaped the intent, I shall show you that never have I, and not now do I, intend to advocate the overthrow of government by force and violence, nor do I intend to bring about such overthrow.
I come from a family whose day-by-day diet included important social issues of the day, and form this I early learned to question things as they are and to seek improvements. Thus, my mother advocated Women's Suffrage, and my father and mother- * * * * * * * * * * * MISS FLYNN: -and my father and mother discussed with their children the campaigns of Debs, the Socialist candidate for President.
My father read aloud to me and to my brother and sisters such books as the Communist Manifesto and other writings of Marx and Engels, which the Government will use as evidence in this trial. I was a serious child, due probably to these childish impressions which are background to my affiliation in my extreme youth with the Socialist movement and in my mature years with the Communist Party.
Times were hard. We were poor. My first experience with discrimination was in Manchester, New Hampshire, when my father ran for city engineer about 1895. I heard it said he was defeated because he was Irish. He was very bitter on this subject and told us of signs on factories when he was a boy, No Irish need apply.
Our parents opposed all forms of national, religious or color discrimination, which we will prove is identical with the position of the Communist Party today and form the basis of the position I take today in the Communist Party.
My first knowledge of the meaning of imperialism, which will be an issue in this case, was a vivid recollection of my father's opposition to the Spanish-American War and his insistence on the right of the Cuban and Philippine peoples to their independence. He joined an anti-imperialist league to protest against our country embarking on the evil path of imperialism, which we will prove began at that time.
The conditions in the textile towns of New Hampshire and Massachusetts contributed to my later joining the Communist Party, which, as Mr. Lane says, concentrates on the recruiting of workers in industry: huge gray mills, like prisons, barrack-like company boarding houses, long hours, low wages, long periods of slack; the prosperous owner lived in the center of Adams, Massachusetts, and rode around in his fine carriage with its beautiful horses. I saw lard instead of butter on neighbors tables, children without underwear in cold New England winters, a girl scalped by an unguarded machine in a mill across the street from our school. I saw an old man weeping as they put him in the lock-up as a tramp.
Then we came to live in the drab South Bronx, near the New Haven Railroad's roundhouse, in a cold water, unheated, gas-lit flat. Casualties and accidents were high among the railroad workers. Children were maimed as they gathered coal in the yards in bad times. My mother helped women in the neighborhood who could not afford a doctor when a baby came. * * * * * * * * * * * MISS FLYNN: Yes, I was greatly troubled by all this. Why did good hard-working people suffer so? Why were men who were willing, able, and anxious to work, denied jobs? Why was there so much unemployment? Why were there rich people who apparently did little but enjoyed life? I hated poverty. I saw my mother humiliated when unpaid grocery bills could not be met and the landlord stood at the door demanding his rent. * * * * * * * * * * * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MUSKOGEE PHOENIX & TIMES-DEMOCRAT DEC. 15, 1998 PAGE 8 SEC. A TUESDAY
CREATIVE BIOLOGY MAY END FIRE ANT PROBLEM
GRAND JUNCTION, TENNESSEE, southern fire ants kill, maim and blind. Their depredations of crops, electrical equipment and suburban lawns carry a price tag of $2 billion each year.
The long-held wisdom that they are a southern problem is being challenged by a new, hybrid strain that seems able to withstand harsh winters. Now fire ants have turned up in California, where the state is struggling to control them. That task has eluded others as the ants spread at a rate of four (4) miles to five (5) miles a year since early in the century.
Scientists here hope a few last-ditch tricks will halt the spread.
They have killed dozens of people over the years, most recently in September when they covered a patient in her nursing home bed near JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI. They also attack farm animals and are in potent menace to kids on the playgrounds and ball-fields of suburbia.
The prolific fire ants are moving indoors in search of food and nesting sites. If researches at THE AMES PLANTATION---an 18,500-acre agricultural experiment station near here---are unsuccessful, the rest of the nation will eventually feel their sting.
Shanties forming early down-town MUSKOGEE in the 1890s included a one-room frame structure on the EAST SIDE of MAIN STREET where JOHN H. DILLARD opened the door to banking customers under the name "THE COMMERCIAL BANK." DILL began with $700 and a strong belief in the future of INDIAN TERRITORY. With steady growth and the need for expansion, the bank moved sereral times, once to the NORTHWEST CORNER of BROADWAY and MAIN STREETS.
D.N. FINK was named PRESIDENT OF COMMERCIAL in 1911 and served as a leading contributor to the CITY'S growth and stability. In 1912 COMMERCIAL moved into the new MUSKOGEE skyscraper, THE BARNES BUILDING, with its spacious lobby. Following a merger with THE EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK, COMMERCIAL moved into THE FLYNN---AMES BUILDING, (DENNIS T. FLYNN AND CHARLES BISMARK AMES), which became the COMMERICAL NATIONAL BUILDING AT THIRD AND BROADWAY. A change of ownership occurred in 1926 when C. F. LYNDE and J. F. DARBY purchased a controlling interest in the institution. The reorganization brought in a gentleman as president who became the bedrock of COMMERICAL. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OKLAHOMA NATURAL GAS COMPANY
C. B. AMES / D. T. FLYNN
OKLAHOMA NATURAL GAS COMPANY MAKES APPLICATION FOR STATE CHARTER. $3,000,000 CAPITAL. THE INCORPORATORS ARE: H. M. BYLLESBY, ARTHUR S. HURL AND HENRY M. BLACKMER OF CHICAGO AND D. T. FLYNN AND C. B. AMES OF OKLAHOMA CITY.
MUSKOGEE TIMES DEMOCRAT 1906, OCTOBER 13, P. 1, COL. 3 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA CITY DIRECTORY 1909
FLYNN & AMES (DENNIS T. FLYNN, C. B. AMES, R. A. KLEINSCHMIDT, R. M. CAMPBELL, T. G. CHAMBERS, W. C. MITCHELL, F. E. SMITH), LAWYERS, 1ST FLOOR AMES BUILDING. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA
PRESERVATIONISTS ARE ORGANIZING A CAMPAIGN TO SAVE THE FLYNN---AMES BUILDING. NATIONS BANK PLANS TO DEMOLISH THE SEVEN-STORY STRUCTURE AND REPLACE IT WITH A PARKING PLAZA.
AN ARCHITECTURAL DETAIL ADORNS THE FLYNN---AMES BUILDING, WHICH WILL BE DEMOLISHED AS PART OF A NATIONS BANK RENOVATION PROJECT.
GROUP FORMS PLAN TO SAVE FLYNN---AMES -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CHARLES BISMARK AMES
C. B. AMES has exercised a strong influence upon the life of OKLAHOMA, in the creation, organization, and development of which he has played an active part. He helped to secure the passage in CONGRESS on the ENABLING ACT that made OKLAHOMA A STATE, and later served as a member of its first SUPREME COURT COMMISSION. He has developed a legal practice that has made him one of the foremost lawyers in the state, has helped to organize and has become interested in a number of commercial and financial enterprises which today are large and successful, and has accumulated wealth and developed prestige. He has served as the ASSISTANT TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, and as the CHIEF COUNSEL for the TEXAS COMPANY, of which he now is a VICE PRESIDENT and a member of the BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Only OKLAHOMA CITY, he aided in effecting an agreement between the railroads and the city, wherein plans for station facilities and track removal were agreed upon and the city voted a four-million-dollar-bond issue to meet the cost of putting this plan into effect. Largely because of this service, he was voted OKLAHOMA CITY'S most useful citizen in 1927.
His is a distinguished ancestral heritage. His father's people, who came to AMERICA in 1642, included some noted figures in AMERICAN HISTORY. A great-great-grandfather, a CHAPLAIN in WASHINGTON'S ARMY, lost his life at VALLEY FORGE. FISHER AMES, an uncle, leader of the FEDERALIST PARTY in the FIRST CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, was a strong figure during the REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD. The family has included many MINISTERS, ONE A METHODIST BISHOP.
Through his mother, he is connected with an equally distinguished SOUTHERN FAMILY---THE LONGSTREETS, who also came to AMERICA in the early days, only a few years after the AMESES. JUDGE AMES'S mother was a sister of GENERAL LONGSTREET, and her uncle was AUGUSTUS B. LONGSTREET, a leading educator of the SOUTH, author of "GEORGIA SCENES," for some years PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, and one of the members of the famous METHODIST CONFERENCE of 1844 at which the METHODIST CHURCH separated into the NORTH AND SOUTH GROUPS OVER THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY.
JUDGE AMES was born August 1, 1870, in MACON, MISSISSIPPI. His parents, Charles Bingle, and Sarah Jane (Longstreet), Ames, lived in a comfortable home in Macon. From among his boyhood playmates several able men have developed---a great lawyer in the SOUTH, an ADMIRAL IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY, and a President of the Mississippi Women's College. The boy Charles, the youngest member of a family of two boys and a girl, spurred by the achievements of his ancestors, also hoped to achieve distinction in his own life.
He entered OKLAHOMA CITY as a man of means, representing large interests, and in a short time developed a thriving legal business. Called upon to help in the organization of THE OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY and several other substantial business enterprises, he was soon identified with a number of important business institutions and BANKS, and became a well-known figure in the STATE. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
STANDARD OIL CO. (INDIANA) V. UNITED STATES, 283 U.S. 163 (1931) 283 U.S. 163
STANDARD OIL CO. (INDIANA) ET AL. V. UNITED STATES. NO. 378
ARGUED JAN. 13-15, 1931. DECIDED APRIL 13, 1931. [ STANDARD OIL CO. (INDIANA) V. UNITED STATES 283 U.S. 163 (1931) ]
[283 U.S. 163, 165] MESSRS. C. B. AMES, OF OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, CHARLES NEAVE, OF NEW YORK CITY, AND LOUIS L. STEPHENS, OF CHICAGO, ILL. FOR PRIMARY APPEALLANTS
MR. G.H. DORR. OF NEW YORK CITY, FOR SECONDARY APPELLANTS.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND MR. THOMAS D. THACHER, SOL. GEN., WASHINGTON, D. C., FOR THE UNITED STATES.
MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS DELIVERED THE OPINION OF THE COURT.
THIS SUIT WAS BROUGHT BY THE UNITED STATES IN JUNE, 1924, IN THE FEDERAL COURT FOR NORTHERN ILLINOIS, TO ENJOIN FUTHER VIOLATION OF SECTION 1 AND SECTION 2 OF THE SHERMAN ANTI--TRUST ACT JULY 2, 1890, C. 647, 26 STAT. 209 (15 USCA 1, 2). THE VIOLATION CHARGED IS AN ILLEGAL COMBINATION TO CREATE A MONOPOLY AND TO RESTRAIN INTERSTATE COMMERCE BY CONTROLLING THAT PART OF THE SUPPLY OF GASOLINE WHICH IS PRODUCED BY THE PROCESS OF CRACKING. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TITLE: ( THE HISTORY OF STANDARD OIL COMPANY )
SUMMARY: EXXON CORP'S PROPOSED PURCHASED OF MOBIL CORP. WOULD REUNITE TWO (2) CORNERSTONES OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER'S OIL TITAN, THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY.
BIG DEAL: WICHITA FIRM ALSO BUYS TAHLEQUAH. FORT GIBSON. TULSA BANKS: BANK IV WILL BE NEW NAME
The sale of Commercial Bank and Trust Company and banks at Talequah. Fort Gibson and Tulsa to a Wichita firm was announced here Wednesday.
Fourth Financial Corp. officials said the firm will aquire Commercial Landmark Inc. which has assets of $456.2 million and deposits of $418 million.
Ownership of the Commercial holdings will occur with Fourth Financial exchanging shares of its stock for all the shares of Commercial Landmark Corp. Those transactions involve. * Commercial Bank and Trust Co. of Muskogee, $224.2 million. *First Bank and Trust of Tahlequah. $139.6 million. *Commercial Bank and Trust of Tulsa. $78 million. *First Bank and Trust of Fort Gibson. $18.4 million.
The banks names will be changed to BANK IV OF OKLAHOMA as they become part of FOURTH FINANCIALS chain of 27 OKLAHOMA banking locations.
Presidents at the Commercial Banks will remain the same. JERRY B. BAKER at Commercial of Muskogee. JOHN A. BAKER at Commercial of Tulsa. BOYD COPELAND at First Bank of Fort Gibson, and TONY STOCKTON at First of Talequah. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BANK IV SOLD AGAIN SAT. AUG. 26, 1995
BANK IV OF MUSKOGEE was sold for the second time in two years Friday to BOATMEN'S BANCSHARES INC. a ST. LOUIS-BASED BANK.
Boatmen's announced plans Friday to buy FOURTH FINANCIAL CORP. for $1.2 billion. Fourth Financial Corp., which is based in Wichita, Kan., bought Commercial Landmark Inc. in 1993 and changed the MUSKOGEE BANK'S name from COMMERCIAL BANK TO BANK IV.
According to the Associated Press BOATMEN'S, which operates 500 offices in nine (9) states. including SUPERIOR FEDERAL OF MUSKOGEE, will swap one share of its common stock for each of FOURTH FINANCIAL'S shares. BOATMEN'S said buying FOURTH FINANCIAL would place it in a region where it can build its business.
" I'm very sketchy at this point. I really don't have any details as of now," said BANK IV OF MUSKOGEE President Lyndon Wells Friday night. "All I was told was that an agreement was signed today."
JIM BUSHNELL, BANK IV'S vice president, is excited about the new ownership.
"The bottom line is we've got a major player coming into the market." BUSHNELL said. "The captial they are going to bring to the table is extraordinary for MUSKOGEE."
BOATMEN'S lists assets of $33.4 billion and is among the nation's largest providers of trust services, with about $45 billion in assets under management. FOURTH FINANCIAL has assets of about $7.5 billion and 87 officies in KANSAS, 56 in OKLAHOMA and three (3) in MISSOURI. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BOATMEN'S BANK, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI
THE OLDEST BANK IN ST. LOUIS in the BOATMEN'S NATIONAL BANK. When it was chartered of February 16, 1847, it had the name of the BOATMEN'S SAVINGS INSTITUTION, and it was what its name implied---a SAVING'S BANK; it had no capital stock and could not issue notes. Its depositors were its stockholders, and profits were to be divided pro rata among those who deposited within six months at least $100 and left their deposits undisturbed until the charter expired after twenty years. It opened for business on October 18, 1847. ADAM L. MILLS was its first president. When, on November 30, 1855, the State Legislature passed an act reincorporating the institution with a captial stock of from $100,000 to $500,000, the bank and the distinction of being the only bank other than the BANK OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI to have a charter. Note-issuing privileges were not provided, however. The ultimate paid-up capital was $400,000. In 1873 the bank was again rechartered under the name of the BOATMEN'S SAVINGS BANK with a capital stock of $2,000,000, and in 1890 the name was changed to the BOATMEN'S NATIONAL BANK.
The state banking legislation of 1857 provided for an ample and sound currency in MISSOURI. The bank notes of the chartered banks were payable in specie on demand and circulated within the STATE AT PAR. Such a CURRENCY was sorely need, for the limited circulation of the OLD STATE BANK was insufficient to meet the demands of increased buisness and commercial developement which encouraged irresponsible " WILDCAT" banks in ILLINOIS, NEBRASKA, WISCONSIN, and other STATES to flood MISSOURI with their BANK NOTES. Although these bank notes were accepted at from five to twenty per cent discount, they nevertheless had managed to circulate in the STATE simply because there were not enough STATE BANK NOTES TO BE HAD. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BRAINERD W. LA TOURETTE
BRAINERD W. LA TOURETTE is a St. Louis attorney with offices in the BOATMEN'S BANK BUILDING. He has largely specialized in transportation cases, and has frequently appeared before the Interstate Commerce Commission and in the handling of the legal interests of the motor truck organizations.
MR. LA TOURETTE was born at ST. LOUIS, November 21, 1897, son of HARRY B. and EMMA (HOFFMEISTER) LA TOURETTE. Both parents are deceased. They were born at North St. Louis. THE LA TOURETTES were a FRENCH HUGUENOT FAMILY, and MR. LA TOURETTE represents the fourth (4) generation born in AMERICA. The first (1) generation became prominent in NEW YORK STATE, where his grandfather, CAPTIAN HENRY LA TOURETTE, was born. He had four(4) brothers, one of whom became a JUDGE and others were successful in buisness and the professions. CAPTAIN LA TOURETTE, who died in early manhood, was a STEAMBOAT CAPTAIN on the MISSISSIPPI RIVER. HARRY B. LA TOURETTE, father of the attorney, was a railroad man, and for some time was connected with the ROCK ISLAND-FRISCO TERMINAL at ST. LOUIS.
LA TOURETTE, SCHLUETER, EBLING & BYRNE SUITE 1400 11 SOUTH MERAMEC AVENUE ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI 63105 314-727-0777 314-727-9071 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FED APPROVES NATIONS BANK'S $9.6 BILLION MERGER WITH BOATMEN'S BANCSHARES
OKLAHOMA BRANCHES INCLUDED
WASHINGTON (AP)---The Federal Reserve Board gave final approval Monday, to NATIONS BANK's $9.6 billion acquisition of BOATMEN'S BANCSHARES, a deal that creates a bank with 2,600 branches stretching from NORTH CAROLINA to NEW MEXICO.
The merger of NATIONS BANK, based in CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA, with the ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI based BOATMEN'S, forges a $228 billion giant in 16 STATES, including OKLAHOMA. The merger was annouced AUGUST 29, and is expected to conclude in JANUARY.
The combination will dramatically expand NATIONS BANK'S presence in the MIDWEST and make it the NATIONS FOURTH (4) LARGEST BANKING COMPANY over all. With the deal, Nations Bank's retail banking operations will expand into ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA, KANSAS, IOWA, ILLINOIS, and NEW MEXICO. The bank already has a major presence in SOUTHEAST.
In addition, the deal will combine the FINANCE COMPANY subsudiaries of the two (2) banks, giving the new NATIONS BANK a presence in 38 STATES. NATIONS CREDIT, THE FINANCE COMPANY ARM OF NATIONS BANK, by itself has $9 billion in assests and nearly 300 branches 34 STATES. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
THE C.E.O. OF NATIONS BANK, HUGH McCOLL, IS RESPONSIBLE FOR BRING THE PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM (PANTHERS) TO NORTH CAROLINA (CBS EVENING NEWS STORY, AIRED AT 5:53, ON 1-11-97. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NATIONS BANK CONSIDERS SELLING BUILDING MUSKOGEE DAILY PHOENIX FRIDAY, NOV. 7, 1997 3A
MUSKOGEE BRANCHES TO CONTINUE OPERATIONS
A historic piece of Muskogee's skyline may go on sale soon. NationsBank officials are making a decision whether to put the FLYNN--AMES BUILDING at Third Street and Broadway up for sale, a representative of the BANK'S property management firm said Thursday. But the BANK will continue to operate its MUSKOGEE BRANCH. "The operation is staying in Muskogee, with all of its current services, "said JIM SMALLEY, who is in charge of the MUSKOGEE BRANCH. "We intend to grow in MUSKOGEE."
The BANK has 25 employees at its central location and its two (2) drive-ins at Fourth and Denison and York and Hancock Streets.
Asked whether the BANK'S BUILDING is on the market, SMALLEY said, "That I don't know. I had a gentleman today ask me that question."
The area NATIONS BANK PROPERTIES are managed by LINCOLN PROPERTIES of TULSA, OK. Denise Piland of LINCOLN PROPERTIES said she was uncertain about the BUILDING'S future.
NATIONS BANK was the third BANKING organization to purchase the BUILDING in three (3) years. In August 1996 NATIONS BANK announced it was purchasing BOATMEN'S BANCSHARES INC. BOATMEN'S had acquired FOURTH FINANCIAL CORP. in 1995. FOURTH had bought COMMERCIAL LANDMARK INC. in 1993, operating it as BANK IV.
COMMERCIAL began in 1889 in MUSKOGEE when JOHN HENRY DILL stated lending MONEY out of an 11-foot-wide storeroom on MAIN STREET. He advertised his operation as "THE COMMERCIAL BANK." Over the years the BANK grew and was owned locally until 1993.
COMMERCIAL BANK moved into the FLYNN--AMES BUILDING in the mid-1920s.
Earlier this year, the BANK removed a metal facade that had covered the BANK since 1967 and had served as a roost for pigeons. The work revealed details crafted shortly after the turn of the century, including columns and intricate stonework. However, renovation of the BUILDING exterior has yet to be completed.
The aptly named NATIONS BANK CORP. and BANK AMERICA CORP. took a giant leap for the banking industry Monday in a $62.8 billion merger creating the COUNTRY'S FIRST (1) COAST-TO-COAST BANK.
The combined corporation would have $570 billion in assets, surpassing CHASE MANHATTAN CORP. as the biggest U.S. BANK.
The new company, which will take the BANK AMERICA NAME, will operate in 22 STATES, with 4,800 branches and 15,000 automated teller machines.
Another bank giant also was born Monday as BANC ONE CORP. and FIRST CHICAGO NBD CORP. annouced a $28.8 billion merger to create the MIDWEST'S most dominant bank.
The two (2) deals come just a week after CITICORP and TRAVELERS GROUP said they would combine sprawling banking, insurance and brokerage businesses into the NATION'S BIGGEST FINANCIAL COMPANY.
The Nations Bank----Bank America merger "is the first (1) giant stride to bring both coasts together under one banking franchise," said MICHAEL ANCELL, a banking analyst at EDWARD JONES.
The Bank America----Nations Bank merger would be the second (2)---largest corporate marriage ever behind the planned $74.4 billion CITICORP---TRAVELERS combination. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WENT TO CITY COUNCIL MEETING TODAY JUNE 28, 1999, CONFRONTED THE CITY COUNCIL, THE MUSKOGEE POLICE SHOWS UP AT MY DOOR, WHAT EVER IS GOING ON HERE, THEY ARE TRING TO COVER IT UP. THE MUSKOGEE POLICE IS INVOLVED HERE, WITH THIER SKEEM OF COVER-UP AND NEGELATE TO DO THIER JOB ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF OUR LAND. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
More About Charles Bismark Ames, Oklahoma Federal Judge: Occupation: LAWYER, JUDGE. Property: OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO. ---- THE FLYNN--AMES BUILDING, MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA --- COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK & TRUST CO. --- NOW BANK OF AMERICA.
Children of Charles Bismark Ames, Oklahoma Federal Judge and Elizabeth Pearl Allen are:
+Ben Allen I Ames, b. November 24, 1894, MACON, NOXUBEE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, UNITED STATES, d. 1969.
Charles Bismark Ames, Oklahoma Federal Judge (b. 1870, d. 1935)
Notes for Charles Bismark Ames, Oklahoma Federal Judge: