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...aspirants who are more than willing to run if given the opportunity. The list of those that have been mentioned as possibilities is a long one: it includes Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Senator Lewis of Illinois, Governor White o Ohio, Cordell Hull of Tennessee, David F. Houston, Melvin A. Traylor, and John W. Davis have likewise been suggested. These dark horses are exceeded in blackness only by the dinginess of their chances of even being seriously mentioned in the convention...
...that State's eight delegates as possible. Even if he does not think his chances for nomination are bright, Candidate Smith, say his friends, hopes to gc to Chicago with enough pledged support to block Governor Roosevelt and dictate the choice of party leader. ¶ Melvin Alvah Traylor, speaking before the Kentucky Legislature last week, declared: "I have not been, am not now, and do not expect to become a candidate for public office. ... I am in love with my chosen work [the presidency of Chicago's First National Bank] and have no desire to desert...
...mother's photographs. 41, President Hoover busied himself with his anti-hoarding campaign (see below). ¶ Entertained at a White House dinner was Speaker of the House John Nance Garner uncomfortable in a new dress suit, together with Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, William Wallace Atterbury, Melvin Alvah Traylor, James Watson Gerard, sundry other tycoons and their ladies. ¶ President Hoover asked Congress to appropriate an additional $1,450,000 with which the Department of Agriculture might fight grasshoppers. ¶ Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke of New Orleans took Louisiana's new Democratic Senator Huey...
...device to raise cash Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak with Board Chairman James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co. tried to sell $36,000,000 of "tax anticipation warrants." Few investors bought. For a third of the district's real estate tax is delinquent already. Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor scoffed: "There just isn't any market, and there isn't going to be. Any trustees today that would buy those obligations . . . would be guilty of bad faith...
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...