Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mellons had built Gulf Oil into a dividend-paying property. By 1929 its net income had averaged $25,000,000 a year for nearly a decade. It was the world's third largest producer of crude when William Larimer Mellon retired from the presidency in 1931. He and Uncle Andrew surveyed the list of Mellon first-string executives and selected as Gulf's new president a lean, handsome man of 51 named James Frank Drake...
...Drake had been in Gulf once before, as assistant to William Mellon. Subsequently he had distinguished himself by serving Andrew Mellon "in a confidential capacity" during the Harding and Coolidge administrations. A moderately successful Springfield, Mass. businessman, he went to Pittsburgh with the Army Ordnance during the World War. There he met the Mellons and the Mellons liked him. They made him successively president of Standard Steel Car, and, in 1930, chairman of Pullman, Inc., where he represented the Mellon interests...
...Andrew Jackson and the United States Bank," Professor Mark Emerson...
...James Andrew Moffett, onetime vice president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, is a member of the Roosevelt Administration to whom most businessmen look with rousing hope. The Federal Housing Administrator, who speaks their language, has taken the lead within the Government of rallying chat conservative opinion which believes that sound recovery must wait on private capital, which opposes huge Federal expenditures that put the Government in competition with private business and frighten off the first faint flutters of returning business confidence. The other school of New Deal thought favors spending Federal funds on a grand scale for maximum social...
...quite handsome, with carved oak pews or stalls running along the sides of the building in the English Collegiate manner. At the East end was the President's seat with desk or pulpit. On this, placed on a rich piece of "China Carpet," was the folio bible given by Andrew Oliver, class of 1724 and later Lt. Governor of Massachusetts. Records show that the Overseers had two pews at the back designed especially for their use. Over the "Great Door" at the West end was perhaps an organ gallery, evidences of which could be brought to light by careful search...