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Word: alvah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grapple was exciting. Officially it was termed the Sixth Biennial Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce (I. C. C.). Grapplers for the U. S. included President Hoover, Secretary Mellon and two vigorous Chicago citizens, Lawyer Silas Hardy Strawn, Chief U. S. Delegate to the Conference, and persuasive Melvin Alvah ("Mel") Traylor, president of Chicago's First National Bank, famed for his able work in setting up Europe's Bank for International Settlements (TIME Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Universal Crisis | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Melvin Alvah Traylor, First National of Chicago: "Employers must be as quick to recognize the real wage (based on purchasing power of the dollar) in a rising market as labor must be to recognize the real wage in a falling market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lap of the Gods | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Melvin Alvah Traylor, president of First National Bank of Chicago, was elected a director of Southern Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

When Chicago politicians capitulated to Silas Hardy Strawn's "Citizens' Rescue Committee" and appealed for $74,000,000 to tide the city over until delayed taxes come due July i, big taxpayers were at first reluctant to buy the city's script. Such temporizing Melvin Alvah Traylor, president of Chicago's First National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Cash for Chicago | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...anxiety about that than she did last week about whether Germany might default. But the Wall Street crash has raised doubts as to whether U. S. investors can be depended on to hold the German bag-full or empty as the future will reveal. Last week lean, jocular Melvin Alvah Traylor, President of The First National Bank of Chicago, and quiet, thickset Jackson Eli Reynolds, President of First National Bank of New York, were on the Atlantic en route to tell the statesmen at The Hague what can be expected from U. S. investors. Mr. Reynolds was chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: New Big Three | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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