Word: alvah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banks, demanded their money. Runs hit good banks and bad alike. That was the week that Charles Gates Dawes negotiated his notorious $90,000,000 RFC loan for his now defunct Central Republic. Long queues in the main banking rooms of First National were not dispersed until President Melvin Alvah Traylor addressed the crowd, explaining that he had enough cash for each & every depositor, that First National had weathered the Chicago Fire, had weathered other depressions, would weather this...
German G. Gidden '36 made a good start for Harvard by swamping C. T. Barnes 3-0. Richard W. Gilder '36 kept the pace by defeating A. K. Black 3-1. In a closer match Alvah W. Sulloway '38 topped A. Keyes...
DWELL IN THE WILDERNESS-Alvah C. Bessie-Covici, Friede ($2.50). The story of a Midwestern family dominated by a neurotic mother whose sexual frustration wrecked the lives of her husband and children...
Married, Nancy Traylor, 21, daughter of the late Chicago Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor; and Nathan B. Swift, 23, of Chicago's meat-packing Swifts; in Chicago...
...Brown's election to succeed Melvin Alvah Traylor, who died fortnight ago, was no great surprise to Chicagoans. He was the first of a small group of senior officers who constituted "Mel" Traylor's "cabinet." Son of a Salem, Mass, lawyer who went to Chicago in 1872 and became a judge, "Ned" Brown was general counsel for the bank within four years after graduating from Harvard Law School at 23. At 34 he was vice president, at 38 senior vice president. Famed for his knowledge of banking technique, he was operating head under President Traylor. Today...