Word: mel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day in London Ambassador Mel lon again received the Press, distributed the customary statement about diplomatic relations never having been better, about mutual assistance in solving not insoluble problems left by the War. Then he answered the stock question all new U. S. Ambassadors to the Court of St. James's are asked: Would he serve liquor at the Embassy...
This idea was already sprouting in the U. S. last week. Melvin ("Mel") Traylor. drawling Chicago First National Bank president and leading organizer of Europe's B. I. S. (Bank for International Settlements), said: "I believe the suspension should be longer." Echoed Banker"George M. Reynolds of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust: "We can afford to wait a year or two or even three if necessary...
...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...
...Afghanistan and speculators of every race were participants in the U. S. crash of 1929. Naturally, last week, the most popular speech at the Conference the only one interrupted by incessant laughter and cheers was a great flaying of the New York stockmarket by Chicago's droll, drawling "Mel" Traylor...