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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Sep. 2, 1935 | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Left. By Melvin Alvah Traylor, President of Chicago's First National Bank, in trust to his widow, Dorothy Yerby Traylor, the bulk of an estate estimated at $400,000, exclusive of insurance policies reputedly worth more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 5, 1934 | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Brown for Traylor | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

Died. Melvin Alvah Traylor, 55, Chicago banker and Democrat; of pneumonia; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 26, 1934 | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

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