Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best client," Frank J. Hogan tells his friends in private, "is a rich man who is scared." In Pittsburgh last week Attorney Hogan was serving the best client of his career. Andrew William Mellon had hired Washington's No. 1 criminal lawyer to play the desperate game which the New Deal had forced upon the 79-year-old onetime (1921-32) Secretary of the Treasury. The New Deal's stake: $139,045 and the reputation of its Attorney General Homer Stillé Cummings, charged with forcing the game for personal spite and political advantage. Mr. Mellon...
...Marquisa de Pontejos, No.1 Goya in the U. S., is a portrait of a lady with a bouffant skirt, a single rose and a lively little pug dog. It was last seen publicly in Madrid in 1928 when Mr. Mellon lent it to the great Goya Centennial Exposition. Carman Messmore of the Knoedler Galleries calls it "probably the finest Goya in the world...
Adoration of the Magi, No. 1 Botticelli in the U. S., was painted by the great Italian in Rome in 1481 while he was working on frescoes for the Sistine Chapel. This, too, turned up eventually in the Hermitage Museum, and it took $838,350 of Mellon money...
...towered San Gimignano for 400 years, until Napoleon swept through Italy. Unlike most of Napoleon's booty, it was not deeded permanently to the Louvre, slipped through a number of private hands to land finally in Moscow. One of the greatest of the Hermitage treasures, it cost Mr. Mellon the least...
...Eyck's Annunciation was completed about 1434. From a church in Dijon, to Paris, to Holland, to the Hermitage, the canvas finally landed in Mr. Mellon's collection...