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...great grapple was 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...
...game of Messrs Hoover, Mellon, Strawn and Traylor last week was defensive. They were out to block efforts by European business leaders to stampede the Congress against (U. S.) high tariffs and in favor of (U. S.) cancellation of War debts...
Fortnight ago it was rumored that Dr. Frank had asked his potent friend Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago for a job. But he said: "There is absolutely nothing to it. ... I am under indefinite contract here...
Democrat Cermak had the firm if not ardent support of such famed Chicagoans as William Ruggles Dawes, Silas Hardy Strawn, Julius Rosenwald and Frank Jo seph Loesch. He kept his campaign on a nice, colorless plane. He harped on police reform, aid to the jobless, reduced taxes. But voters took his promises at a discount because his own record was that of a routine politician who had risen to the top of his party. When Thompson assailed him as "that pushcart peddler," he promptly organized a parade of pushcart peddlers who vowed to vote for him. Plump and precise, bespectacled...
...World Court to the Senate for ratification. Among many notable petitioners were: John Joseph Pershing, Julius H. Barnes, Roy Wilson Howard, Felix M. Warburg, Jane Addams, Newton Diehl Baker, Seward Prosser, Matthew Woll, Fred John Fisher, Edward A. Filene, Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Herbert Bayard Swope, Silas Hardy Strawn, Myron Charles Taylor, Admiral William Sowden Sims, Alfred Pritchard Sloan...