Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medical department, he herded his disheartened regiment all the way from Natchez to Nashville--it was certainly time for a new nickname. "He's tough," exclaimed an admiring voice from the ranks. "Tough as hickory," observed another, naming the toughest thing he knew. That was in March 1813. Andrew Jackson has been "Old Hickory" ever since...
...right of collective bargaining; guaranteed that no employe be required to join or refrain from joining any organization, as a condition of employment. Meanwhile staff writers of eight Philadelphia and Camden newspapers, not at all pleased with being classed as "professionals," drew up a list of objections, appointed Andrew McClean Parker, star reporter for David Stern's Philadelphia Record, to present their demands in Washington. They wanted the code to fix a 40-hr. week (as Scripps-Howard and Hearst voluntarily did fortnight ago) consisting of five 8-hour days, with no deduction in pay, and to guarantee that...
...Andrew William Mellon, indignant at an unflattering book about his career (TIME, Aug. 14), issued a tart statement to the Press: "I have tried to read the so-called biography of myself entitled Mellon's Millions. It attributes to me and to other members of my family a fortune of such fantastic and imaginary proportions as to be senseless...
...Western Pennsylvania across the Alleghenies to the Delaware River. Rockefeller, who had stopped others, could not stop this swift, calculated move. Two years later the Mellons sold their pipe-line which had cost $2,500,000 to Standard Oil for $4,500,000. All this happened by 1895 when Andrew was 40. The next decade, the decade of the Spanish War, was greater for Andrew. In the war boom he turned promoter on a grand scale. He merged coal properties around Pittsburgh (many of them Mellon owned) into two great companies and sold their stock to the public. He merged...
...public. In 1908 old Thomas Mellon died on his 95th birthday but he had long outlived his money-making days-Son Andrew and Son Dick, who worked with him, were at the height of their powers, building up the Mellon banks, building up Gulf Oil, building Aluminum Co. Patent struggles had threatened their aluminum monopoly but they bought out contenders whom they could not beat at law. As their patents expired they fortified their monopoly by other means-acquired all the available bauxite deposits in the U. S. and South America, pre-empted cheap waterpower sites at Niagara...