Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Similarly the two U. S. citizens who last week accepted invitations to sit on the bank charter committee pack their own potency. They must have plenty. They are Jackson Eli Reynolds, president of First National Bank of New York, and Melvin Alvah Traylor, president of First National Bank of Chicago...
Born in Woodstock, Ill., stocky, dynamic Farmer Boy Reynolds worked his way west, was known as a mighty Leland Stanford footballer to undergraduate Herbert Hoover. Striking out for the East he took his law degree at Columbia, taught in the Columbia Law School from 1903-06 and 1913-17, and...
Born of mountaineer stock at Breeding, Ky., lanky, humorous "Mel" Traylor also went west, to a two-fisted section of Texas, where he clerked by day, studied law at night and in 1909 became president of the First National Bank of Ballinger.
One evening last week a secretary at No. 10 Downing Street, dingy brick residence of Britain's Prime Minister, answered the telephone, started slightly, and later said that what he had heard was: "Hello? This is Charlie Dawes. Tell the Prime Minister I'm coming right over"?click! Within...
The new note represented strenuous efforts by the President and seven U. S. admirals to go rather more than half way to meet Mr. MacDonald's ideas of how the U. S. and Britain should achieve first naval parity and then mutual reduction of armaments. Pleased, but unwilling to make...