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"Mellon and Couzens are both very rich men. They are the richest two men in active political life. Each is the case of a man able to command any form of leisure or diversion known to wealth, but foregoing all that and actually working harder at the public business than...
Washington newspaper men, wrote Mark Sullivan, one of them, are amused at the "nagging and snapping" between Secretary Mellon and Senator Couzens (TIME, Mar. 16).
The extraordinary success of the Dodges dates back to 1901, when they took over a small machine shop for debt. Just at that time, Henry Ford was hunting for a plant in which to manufacture his first cars. Shortly after, the Ford Motor Co. was formed. Ford owned about a...
The Significance. The real trouble is that the Income Tax Law is so complicated that it calls for exercise of judgment in its administration, about which there may develop two or more conscientiously opposed verdicts. The trouble is heightened by the antagonism of Senator Couzens and Secretary Mellon. The pride...
*In 1903, James Couzens, 31, Canadian by birth, was receiving $1,800 a year, working in a coal yard in Detroit. His employer, A. Y. Malcolmson, took some stock in the company Henry Ford was organizing in exchange for guaranteeing the Ford Company's credit up to $7,000...