Word: traylor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were appointed junior partners : Burnham Carter, who joined the firm ten years ago and lately returned from a leave of absence in which he was secretary to Ambassador Guggenheim in Havana; Harcourt Parrish, oldtime AP and Louisville Courier-Journal man whom Ivy Lee rented out to Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor for the latter's effort to get the Democratic nomination last year; Joseph Ripley, onetime editor of the tradepaper American Press in which he wrote a flattering interview with Mr. Lee in 1926; James Wideman Lee II, 26, elder son, who has been working for his father since graduation...
...tremble when he was talking to us as some of the so-called bigwigs did." Next day Leader Fewkes and his committee were to have had lunch with the "bigwigs" at the swank Union League Club. But they changed their minds and let the bankers (including Messrs. Dawes & Traylor) cool their soup for 20 minutes before announcing that they did not wish to appear under obligation to the bankers...
...they will be bothered in the future by charges for little things. . . ." Finally he changed his mind again and agreed to a trial by jury. A mob of long unpaid, tatterdemalion Chicago schoolteachers invaded big Chicago banks to demand cooperation between banks and the taxless school board. Melvin Alvah Traylor put them off with an "I agree with you." Charles Gates Dawes cowed them with: "To hell with trouble makers...
...about R. F. C. loans, but that was just what the Chicago teachers were most interested in. There were conferences with Governor Henry Horner, with Acting Mayor Corr and with the Citizens' Committee on Public Expenditures. Teachers marched upon the First National Bank, seeking audience with Melvin A. Traylor. From Washington Illinois' Senator James Hamilton Lewis sent word that President Roosevelt was sympathetic, would see a delegation of teachers soon. Senator Lewis announced he had a new plan for getting Federal...
George Alfred Ranney, vice president of International Harvester, author of some of its clear, frank financial statements, director of Chicago's First National Bank, and great, golf-playing friend of Melvin Traylor, accepted an offer to become vice chairman and financial head of Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas Light & Coke, Public Service of Northern Illinois-posts recently held by Samuel Insull...