Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Business Done. The House of Deputies reelected Dr. Ze Barney Thome Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate and rector of Washington's Epiphany Church, to be its president; Dr. Carroll Melvin Davis of New York, domestic secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, to be secretary...
...mile ride, in support of the strikers. No Spanish language papers appeared. Factories closed. There were many in Havana last week who insisted that open revolution would now be under way and President Machado possibly be in exile were it not for the alertness of Patrolman Melvin of Atlantic City, N. J., and the sensitive nose of a New York City pedestrian...
...Patrolman Melvin saw a yacht's searchlight flashing off the Steel Pier. Thinking it was a rumrunner, he made no effort to interfere. After a decent interval he approached the pier, was told by the night watchman that no rum had landed but that five Cubans in the last stages of seasickness had staggered ashore. Patrolman Melvin went into action, trailed the party to the Hotel Wiltshire. There he found Rosendo Collazo, onetime Cuban Senator and colonel; Aurelio Collazo, his son, a lawyer; Aurelio Alvarez, discontented sugar planter; Rafael Idurralde, another lawyer; Captain Luis H. Rodiguez, onetime political prisoner...
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...
...pave a road to Milwaukee. Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak (whose city last week was $5,000,000 in salary arrears) rushed to Lawndale State Bank to assure depositors that their bank was sound. When a run started on Chicago City Bank & Trust Co. (in Englewood on the South side), Melvin Alvah Traylor of First National Bank said his institution would guarantee that Chicago City Bank's depositors would be paid. Impatiently he added: ''They need a bank. If the people of that community want to wreck their own bank, they can go ahead." Chicago Bank & Trust...