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Broad jump--Won by N. P. Beveridge '32, 20 ft. 4 in.; second, tie between Alvah Crocker '32 and Pike...
...merged their Continental National Bank & Trust Co. with Eugene M. Stevens' Illinois Merchants Trust Co. to make the second largest U. S. bank. The Reynolds brothers, however, are money makers rather than law makers, and Banker Stevens belongs to the comparatively younger generation. There is also Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor, onetime Texan, head of Chicago's First National Bank...
Nominated. Findlay S. Douglas, one-time U. S. amateur golf champion (1898), of Manhattan; to be President of the U. S. Golf Association, to succeed Melvin Alvah Traylor, Chicago banker...
President Melvin Alvah ("Mel") Traylor had come from the hill counties of Texas...
...Federal Reserve sought to ease up still further on credit in the U. S., with the sound idea that higher interest rates abroad would attract much-needed funds. It ordered the Chicago bank to reduce its rediscount rate from 4 to 3½%. Chicago bankers, led by famed Melvin Alvah Traylor, head of the powerful First National Bank, dissented sharply, voiced grave warnings. Unheeding, the Federal Reserve forced its way, helped Europe weather its crisis...