Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also brought out to Taxpayer Mellon's detriment was the fact that on each of six occasions during this period when R. B. Mellon bought bank stocks, the amount of his expenditure was credited to him on Brother Andrew's books. When he sold bank stocks his receipts were debited on the account. To Government counsel that meant just one thing: Andrew Mellon, while Secretary of the Treasury, was trading in bank stocks under his brother's name...
...Assumption Day last August important art news leaked from Moscow to Riga, from Riga to Paris, from Paris to the front pages of the U. S. Press. The news leak: Andrew William Mellon had bought Sanzio Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba for $1,500,000 from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (TIME...
...courtship was sudden. Her Irish bridegroom, Sandy, had a way with women and a gift of gab, but the police were after him. On the little Polish steamer in which Sandy and Greta made their getaway from Ireland was a mysterious party of five Englishmen. Leader was Andrew, brilliant bachelor Oxford don, who hid his heroic light under a staid bushel. Andrew was the type of true adventurer, as Sandy was of the shoddy. The expedition's real purpose was not, as given out, to search for butterflies along the Baltic coast, but to hunt through northern Siberia, with...
Refused permission to enter Russia, Andrew took his party in via the Arctic. One of them was killed in a crevasse, one lost a foot. Finally forced to turn back before they had found their German, they were arrested as spies. By the time they were safely out of Russia, Andrew had contracted a bad case of insomnia, daily headaches that nearly drove him crazy. A doctor told him his days were numbered, so he spent his last energy trying to find Greta again. In a little Baltic town he found her, the night ne'er-do-well Sandy...
...Greta's willing shoulder Andrew got his first good sleep in months...