Word: alvah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Melvin Alvah Traylor (First National Bank of Chicago...
...Saturday withdrawing had subsided. Like all large and sound banking institutions, Chicago's had made plain that the money was there and could be had for the asking. In First National, ruddy, crinkly-faced President Melvin Alvah Traylor made two speeches before crowds of clients, one speech in the savings department, another in the checking department. He explained that his bank had passed through the Chicago Fire (1871) and weathered it; had gone through other Depressions and weathered them; would pass through this Depression. Money was on hand for each & every depositor who wanted his share. The crowds dispersed...
...names of the Seniors receiving commissions follow: C. F. Adams, Jr., R. M. Ayer, F. M. Brodie, Jr., D. W. B. Brown, G. R. Clark, F. S. Cheever, E. B. Cole, Alvah Crocker III, W. H. Crosby, W. W. Crowninshield, C. B. Currier, R. M. Faxon, M. J. Finlayson, J. W. Fitzpatrick, N. P. Hallowell, Jr., G. C. Homans, J. B. Mahoney, R. G. Mitchell, Jr., A. H. Parker, Jr., Samuel Powell, Jr., T. N. Rogers, R. G. Snider, Samuel Spencer...
...result of his gang-busting Judge Wilkerson not only received his appointment but the backing of the Illinois Congressional delegation of both parties, Senators Lewis and Glenn, Mayor Cermak of Chicago, the Chicago Bar Association, Attorney General Mitchell, President Melvin Alvah Traylor of Chicago's First National Bank and a host of solid citizens. In contesting Judge Wilkerson's appointment to a higher court. Labor found itself unhappily sided with Organized Crime...
...many of that State's eight delegates as possible. Even if he does not think his chances for nomination are bright, Candidate Smith, say his friends, hopes to gc to Chicago with enough pledged support to block Governor Roosevelt and dictate the choice of party leader. ¶ Melvin Alvah Traylor, speaking before the Kentucky Legislature last week, declared: "I have not been, am not now, and do not expect to become a candidate for public office. ... I am in love with my chosen work [the presidency of Chicago's First National Bank] and have no desire to desert...