Word: alvah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother's photographs. 41, President Hoover busied himself with his anti-hoarding campaign (see below). ¶ Entertained at a White House dinner was Speaker of the House John Nance Garner uncomfortable in a new dress suit, together with Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, William Wallace Atterbury, Melvin Alvah Traylor, James Watson Gerard, sundry other tycoons and their ladies. ¶ President Hoover asked Congress to appropriate an additional $1,450,000 with which the Department of Agriculture might fight grasshoppers. ¶ Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke of New Orleans took Louisiana's new Democratic Senator Huey...
...back passively in the hope Presidential lightning would strike them. The Democratic field: Maryland's Albert Cabell Ritchie, Oklahoma's William Henry Murray, Texas' John Nance Garner, Ohio's Newton Diehl Baker, New York's Owen D. Young, Arkansas' Joseph Taylor Robinson, Tennessee's Cordell Hull, Illinois' Melvin Alvah Traylor?and, of course, New York's Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...servants. As a device to raise cash Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak with Board Chairman James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co. tried to sell $36,000,000 of "tax anticipation warrants." Few investors bought. For a third of the district's real estate tax is delinquent already. Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor scoffed: "There just isn't any market, and there isn't going to be. Any trustees today that would buy those obligations . . . would be guilty of bad faith...
...road to Milwaukee. Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak (whose city last week was $5,000,000 in salary arrears) rushed to Lawndale State Bank to assure depositors that their bank was sound. When a run started on Chicago City Bank & Trust Co. (in Englewood on the South side), Melvin Alvah Traylor of First National Bank said his institution would guarantee that Chicago City Bank's depositors would be paid. Impatiently he added: ''They need a bank. If the people of that community want to wreck their own bank, they can go ahead." Chicago Bank & Trust was not wrecked...
...Chicago would take over the assets of the Foreman institutions. To protect First National against loss, the Clearing House guaranteed a $10,000,000 indemnity fund, Foreman stockholders posted an additional $2,550,000. Yet even so the deal required courage and hero of the conference was Melvin Alvah Traylor, First National's able & active president. After the deal, First National will have resources of $883,000,000, ranking it as second in Chicago to only the $1,122,000,000 Continental Illinois...