Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in Southampton, L. I., Andrew William Mellon, long one of his country's richest men, Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932, died of uremia, broncho-pneumonia...
Successor to Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick as overlord of the feudal financial system of the unique U. S. city of Pittsburgh, Andrew Mellon was an officer or director of 160 corporations and worth no one knew how much more than $500,000,000 in 1921 when Harry M. Daugherty is said to have suggested to Warren Gamaliel Harding that he would make a good Secretary of the Treasury. President-elect Harding answered: "I never heard of him," and in so doing expressed not only his own ignorance but that of the U. S. public...
...Andover--Andrew Munroe Innes...
...Federal District Court in Illinois last week, Dr. Andrew C. Kelly sued the Mercyville Sanatorium and St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital, both of Aurora, for $200,000. While a patient, Dr. Kelly tried to kill himself, was restrained, he claimed, by use of leather and metal straps "so unskilfully adjusted" as to cause his hand to be permanently crippled...
...great good friend of the late Andrew Carnegie whom he resembles,* Professor Wieland last week retorted warmly in the columns of Science that Fossil Cycad National Monument "has no more to do with speleology [cave lore] than the snowcap of Kilimanjaro. It must have been an oversight on the part of nature to put so much scientific clarity and loveliness only 22 miles from a cavern in a gulch and now surrounded by a sort of caravansary. That is not what the student of evolution exactly wishes to see first. . . . Will the 'public' be as dumb tomorrow...