Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President of its board of trustees is Judge Mellon's son, James R. Mellon. Pittsburgh banker. A famed absentee member is his brother. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. Most active of East Liberty's members is an-other brother, Richard Beatty Mellon, president of the Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh...
Operated on a similar plan, the Teachers' Insurance and Annuity Association of America-started with $15,000,000 of Andrew Carnegie's money in 1918-reported, for 1929, that 3,660 pedagogs in 777 U. S., Canadian and Newfoundland institutions had taken out $32,788.197 worth of life insurance. Over $12,000,000 in annuity policies had been contracted for by 8,040 provident pundits...
...door opening on nothing last week involved John Pierpont Morgan in a record damage suit in Manhattan. A hammer dropping from loose fingers last week involved Andrew William Mellon in a record damage suit in Pittsburgh. Observers wondered whether damage suits are not greatly conditioned by the fame and fortune of the defendants...
...Cooper. Rice and cotton gave prosperity. Cavalier second sons, high-born French Huguenots, gave aristocracy. Great names- Pinckney, Rutledge, Lewis, Calhoun, Gadsden, Ravenel, Laurens, Petigru-rose and fell. The St. Cecilia society balls dazzled Northern visitors. To see the magnolia gardens, men crossed the sea. In St. Andrew's hall on Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina voted itself out of the Union. Last big Charleston event: the $5,000,000 earthquake of Aug. 31, 1886, which killed 27 persons...
...potboiling: under the guidance of National City, such companies as Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., Aluminum Co. of America, Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., United Aircraft & Transport Corp., subscribed for stock in International Zeppelin Transport Corp. Paul Weeks Litchfield, president of Goodyear-Zeppelin, was re-elected president of International Zeppelin. Col. Edward Andrew Deeds, chairman of the executive committee of United Aircraft & Transport, was made chairman of the board. Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker was made vice president...