Word: traylor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memorable June night last year Chicago's biggest bankers worked and haggled until commuters were tumbling out of bed to catch early trains (TIME, June 15, 1931). Their work averted a Chicago catastrophe. Shaky Foreman-State National Bank was absorbed by Melvin Alvah Traylor's First National, and National Bank of the Republic by General Charles Gates Dawes's Central Trust...
Melvin Alvah Traylor (First National Bank of Chicago...
First of the defeated candidates to congratulate Nominee Roosevelt was, of course, Speaker Garner who wired: "Your nomination means your election." Mr. Traylor told the Press the Roosevelt nomination made him "personally very happy." Most startling felicitation came from insurgent Republican Senator Hiram Johnson of California, no friend to President Hoover. He was "thrilled" by the Roosevelt plane ride, admired the Roosevelt acceptance speech, but did not go so far as to say he would support the Roosevelt candidacy. Neither did Alfred Emanuel Smith, who had "no comment" to make...
...Saturday withdrawing had subsided. Like all large and sound banking institutions, Chicago's had made plain that the money was there and could be had for the asking. In First National, ruddy, crinkly-faced President Melvin Alvah Traylor made two speeches before crowds of clients, one speech in the savings department, another in the checking department. He explained that his bank had passed through the Chicago Fire (1871) and weathered it; had gone through other Depressions and weathered them; would pass through this Depression. Money was on hand for each & every depositor who wanted his share. The crowds dispersed...
...result of his gang-busting Judge Wilkerson not only received his appointment but the backing of the Illinois Congressional delegation of both parties, Senators Lewis and Glenn, Mayor Cermak of Chicago, the Chicago Bar Association, Attorney General Mitchell, President Melvin Alvah Traylor of Chicago's First National Bank and a host of solid citizens. In contesting Judge Wilkerson's appointment to a higher court. Labor found itself unhappily sided with Organized Crime...