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...cynics suspected Messrs. Cummings, Jackson & Co. of personal animus in initiating the Alcoa suit, New Deal partisans now equally wondered whether a "Mellon judge" was cracking back at them. White-haired, erudite Judge Gibson was appointed to the bench by President Harding 16 months after Mr. Mellon became Harding's Secretary of the Treasury. His son-in-law, William H. Eckert, is a member of the law firm of Smith, Buchanan, Scott & Ingersoll, Aluminum Co. attorneys. But in Pittsburgh it is a rare Republican, Presbyterian and substantial citizen who does not have at least one son-in-law connected...
Sirs: TIME (Education, Oct. 5) displays either marked ignorance or a surprising animus...
...Jeanette MacDonald has decidedly beautiful and not at all unduly prominent teeth. . . . Her voice is remarkably true and pure. . . . In Saw Francisco she sings Nearer, My God, To Thee most feelingly and reverentially. Is it possible that you would permit your reviewer to use your columns to vent personal animus and spite...
...action against Mr. Mellon for fraud in his 1931 income tax return, the old Pittsburgh financier cried "Politics of the crudest sort!" Because Homer Cummings' law firm had handled many a damage suit against the Mellon-controlled Aluminum Co. of America, Mr. Mellon openly accused him of personal animus in going after more taxes. To "General" Cummings' embarrassment, a Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburgh refused to indict its fellow-townsman for any criminality on his tax returns. Mr. Mellon promptly countercharged that, by failing to report all his philanthropies, he had actually overpaid his 1931 income...
...months' leave of absence from his regular job, Governor of the Atlanta Reserve Bank. One significance of his coming ? besides the fact that he was by all odds the funniest-looking man in the Administration ? was that by his personal popularity he softened the New Deal's animus towards bankers and vice versa. A second greater significance was that he acted as a shock absorber be tween the banking system and the Administration, pressing for sound finance, yielding to the extraordinary fiscal demands of a powerful President. One by one, Governor Black saw the important functions...