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Article: Baltimore Bancorp's Hale: tough as bullets. (Edwin F. Hale)
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- American Banker
- Article date:
- December 3, 1991
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Baltimore Bancorp's Hale: Tough as Bullets
Edwin F. Hale, the new chairman of Baltimore Bancorp, is not the type to run away from a fight, especially about money.
Four years ago, the Baltimore shipping executive donned a flak jacket and bought a pistol after receiving death threats during a longshoremen's strike. Mr. Hale, who is nearly six feet tall and solidly built, refused to stop his trucks from making deliveries to a shipping company that was being struck.
Combativeness Proves Useful
"I was not intimidated," growled the self-made millionaire, who used that same combativeness to gain control of the parent of the Bank of Baltimore ...