Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riga telegraphed Paris, Paris cabled the U. S. and last week every big paper in the land carried the news that Andrew William Mellon had purchased Sanzio Raphael's Madonna of the House of Alba from the Soviet Government for the fabulous...
When Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot read the story he angrily declared: "This is the same Mr. Mellon who refused, not to give, but to lend $1,000,000 to keep the unemployed of Pennsylvania from starving. Now he pays half as much again for a picture. That is all anybody needs to know about...
...tumble-down little house overlooking a backyard dump in Pittsburgh, newshawks found a tattered sexagenarian living on relief funds, identified him as William Andrew Mellon, first cousin of one-time Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. Said Cousin William: 'T need this place because I can read, study, think and dream. . . . Andy has been sending me money monthly...
...gave the price of a month's meat. A millworker offered his all. But modern cathedrals are not built by small fry. To Pittsburgh's potent industrialists Chancellor Bowman had to turn for the huge chunks of cash which his dream demands. His trustees include Andrew William Mellon and his nephew Richard, Oilman Joseph Clifton Trees, Foodman Howard Heinz. Westinghouse Boardchairman Andrew Wells Robertson, Banker Henry Clay McEldowney, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir...
Samuel Harden Church, president of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute: In seeking to justify his assault upon Mr. Mellon's character Attorney General Cummings made the announcement that it is his policy to present to each citizen the Government's tax claim, and if the full amount of that claim is not paid without any further discussion of the matter a criminal indictment will be demanded. The cool, calculating villainy of this statement has shocked America...