Word: livingstones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last Hoover Cabinet meeting as Secretary of the Treasury. A profuse exchange of kind words followed. Back at the Treasury Mr. Mellon took the oath as Ambassador to Great Britain, cryptically remarking: "This isn't a marriage ceremony. It's a divorce." At the same time Ogden Livingston Mills was sworn in as Secretary of the Treasury. When Ambassador Mellon was handed his commission, he declared: "This is the first time I've received something." Secretary Mills twitted him on his jokes: "Really, you're getting to be a regular Jimmy Walker...
...Confirmed Ogden Livingston Mills to be Secretary of the Treasury, Arthur Atwood Ballantine to be Undersecretary of the Treasury and Robert Lincoln O'Brien to be chairman of the Federal Tariff Commission...
Last week Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills made it his unpleasant duty to go before the Ways & Means Committee and announce that, in order to balance the 1933 budget, Congress must raise some $1,240,000,000 by new taxes instead of the $920,000,000 which he had estimated last November. Reason: a business upswing had not materialized as expected...
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...
...University. Author John Erskine (Columbia, 1900). Chief Judge Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (Columbia, 1889) of the New York Court of Appeals, put a final polish to their respective speeches. Non-Columbians accepting invitations to the dinner included Alfred Emanuel Smith. Owen D. Young. Governor Wilbur Lucius Cross of Connecticut, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Italian Ambassador to the U. S. Nobile Giacoma de Martino...