Word: traylor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Debt Grapple. Just so long and no longer will a group of European businessmen keep still about "Uncle Shylock.'' The Hoover and Mellon speeches (see below), the daily struggles of Messrs Strawn and Traylor to steer the Congress steering committee, merely postponed the inevitable. Germans grumbled all week behind the scenes about what they now call not War debts but "international obligations.'' The French and Italians got in their able digs. But eventually the British Delegation took over in a fatherly way the job of making U. S. expectations that Europe will pay part of what she owes, seem...
Melvin Alvah Traylor, First National of Chicago: "Employers must be as quick to recognize the real wage (based on purchasing power of the dollar) in a rising market as labor must be to recognize the real wage in a falling market...
Melvin Alvah Traylor, president of First National Bank of Chicago, was elected a director of Southern Pacific...