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Mills for Mellon. Day after Mr. Mellon was named Ambassador to Britain, able Undersecretary Ogden Livingston Mills was, as everyone expected, appointed by President Hoover to succeed him as head of the Treasury. Mr. Mills's nomination was merely White House recognition of the fact that for the past year or so he has been practically running the Treasury over Mr. Mellon's frail shoulder. Between Mr. Mellon and Mr. Mills, 29 years his junior, there was almost a father-and-son relationship which culminated in last week's inheritance of office. Mr. Mills affectionately called his superior...
Divorced & Remarried. Mrs. Edith Gould Wainwright, 30, daughter of the late George Jay Gould; from Carroll Livingston Wainwright, 33, Manhattan socialite who was committed by his brothers to Bloomingdale Hospital last year, was later adjudged to be "mentally competent"; in Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty. Mrs. Wainwright immediately married Sir Hector Murray Macneal, 53, Scottish shipowner...
...agreements are not treaties but revenue laws of the U. S., the President's most able advocates of postponed collections marched not to the Senate but to the Ways & Means Committee of the House to make their best pleas. First to enter the ornate marble committeeroom was Ogden Livingston Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury on whom the President leaned heavily during those troublous June days before France was jockeyed into line for the Moratorium. He told plump, mild-eyed Democratic Chairman James Collier and his 24 committee colleagues that Congress would be "everlastingly disgraced" if it failed to approve...
...Senator from Washington, famed 20 years ago as the suffraget "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, asked a New York court to compel a division of her family's rich holdings on Long Island, New York, Arkansas and Washington, left by her father the late Oliver Livingston Jones. Co-executors protested that none of the parcels would be sold profitably because of the Depression. To that Mrs. Dill replied the property at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. could easily be sold at a profit because Cold Spring is a "millionaire colony'' and "millionaires have not suffered from the Depression...
...making a study of Kipling's works, Mrs. Livingston has noticed that in the Scandinavian countries, the first of his books to be translated and printed were the fishing and sea stories, in the folk tales, and the jungle books. The novels were among the first to be printed in French, Italian, and Spanish...