Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...change caused a great ruckus among St. John's men. William Woodward, rich racehorse owner and honorary chairman of Manhattan's Central Hanover Bank, who has contributed more than one-third of St. John's endowment fund, promptly resigned from the college's finance committee. So did Sylvester W. Labrot, the committee's chairman. Friends of the Board of Trustees said that strongwilled, patrician Dr. Gordon had failed to "cooperate," that he had coddled rich students, snubbed and tyrannized others. But Gordon friends declared his lack of cooperation had been chiefly in a stand against...
Vice Presidents Edward Eagle Brown and John Prince Oleson have long occupied almost identical offices in Chicago's First National Bank. Both suites open into a single reception room, have the same kind of paneling, fireplaces and desks. Last week, when Mr. Brown was elected president of First National and Mr. Oleson was elected board chairman, most people sent duplicate bouquets. One who did not was Charles Gates Dawes. He sent a large basket of red roses. They were placed on a filing cabinet halfway between the two offices...
...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, at 48, he is short, massive, paunchy, proud of his record...
...from- messenger banker. He left grade school at Lombard, Ill. to run errands for First National at $4 a week. The year "Ned" Brown graduated from Harvard Law, John Oleson was proudly wearing the title "loaning officer." Vice President since 1916, he directed the investment of bank funds, was able to accumulate sufficient cash before the bank holiday to meet withdrawals of 20% of the bank's deposits without outside help. Now 60, he succeeds Frederick Holbrook Rawson who re tired as chairman last August because of ill health. To fill the vacancies left by Messrs. Brown and Oleson...