Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Mr. Mellon has offered his scholarship for a year's study in Germany with the unfortunate implication of "replacing" the rejected Hanfstaengl award, the Corporation has followed a consistent policy in turning it down. No matter how sincere the intentions of the donor may have been, the wording of his grant has made it impossible to disassociate it from that of Dr. Hanfstaengl...
...would be difficult to assemble a more impressive aggregation of wealth than is represented by the men on Pullman's board: J. P. Morgan and his partner George Whitney; Richard K. Mellon and two Mellon lieutenants; George F. Baker and a vice president of his First National Bank; General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Harold S. Vanderbilt, Montgomery Ward's Sewell Lee Avery. President of Pullman is David Anderson Crawford, a husky, popular gentleman of 55 who works hard and plays money-golf in the low 80's. During the winter at Chicago's University Club he plays racquets with...
...defeat of Republican Senator David Aiken Reed caused particular rejoicing around the White House campfires. As a rich and reactionary Pittsburgher, as the Senate spokesman for Andrew W. Mellon, as the close ally of Pennsylvania's manufacturer and bankers, Senator Reed personified to Roosevelt Democrats all the things the New Deal was against. Capitalizing to the limit on Roosevelt prestige and brazenly comparing the $678,000,000 poured into his State as relief and loans by the Roosevelt Administration to the $12,000,000 by the Hoover Administration, Democrat Guffey went about Pennsylvania lauding the President...
Died. James Ross Mellon, 88, retired Pittsburgh financier and charitarian, elder brother of Andrew William Mellon, father of Board Chairman William Larimer Mellon of Gulf Oil Corp.; of old age; in Pittsburgh...
...peak railroad year of 1926 Westinghouse Air Brake made $10,000,000. A Mellon (Richard K.) sits on the board but even the Mellons could not prevent the company from losing $600,000 last year. So far this year railroads have ordered about 13 times as many freight cars as they built or bought all last year, and Westinghouse is once more in the black. Last week it looked as if Westinghouse would stay in the black for at least a decade. The American Railway Association, as one of its last acts before it was formally absorbed by the bigger...