Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Andrew William Mellon spent the last years of his long life at two related labors. One was completed before his death last August. Then Franklin D. Roosevelt graciously accepted his $50,000,000 art donations as the nucleus of a National Art Gallery. The other and more difficult was to clear his name of the charge made by the U. S. Treasury in March...
...that he had misrepresented his dealings in Old Masters and securities, had filed a fraudulent 1931 income tax return. Andrew Mellon was not alive to see the second labor completed by the Board of Tax Appeals in Washington last week...
Because the Treasury thought Mr. Mellon had a larger 1931 income than he reported, it asked $3,075,103 in additional taxes and penalties. Among the important issues that this brought up was the many million dollars worth of pictures which he had given to his Andrew W. Mellon Educational & Charitable Trust, and which the Treasury did not consider bona fide. Mr. Mellon retorted that he had overpaid the Treasury some $139,000 and charged political persecution. A Pittsburgh grand jury refused to indict him. During the three years the case dragged along before the 15-man Board...
...Angeles was a device making such a boon to smokers available for the first time. So simple that it seems at first glance a quackery, the gadget has a pedigree weighty enough to soothe all such suspicions. Invented by Aluminum Co. of America, it is endorsed by the Mellon Institute and the Italian Government, and is sold by a corporation headed by Count Giuseppe Cippico...
...condense the fumes quickly. Chemist Derr tried using an ordinary cigaret as a filter. He found that smoking one cigaret through another as filter eliminated 70% of the nicotine content. Count Cippico suggested using two cigarets, found that this eliminated 90%. The figures were checked and corroborated by the Mellon Institute...