Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidate against David A. Reed for the U. S. Senate. Reed as Senator has run the errands and taken the orders of Mellon, the international bankers and the steel interests long enough. He should be replaced by a man who will take his orders only from the people...
...brother and I," said Andrew Mellon to his black-hatted banker father one day in 1872, "could start a good business with not very much money." So at 17 Andrew and his younger brother Richard got a loan to start a lumber yard and real estate development outside Pittsburgh. Thereafter Andrew and Richard always prefaced their business decrees with "My brother and I"-a phrase which grew to have the finality of the royal "We." As soon as the two boys had proved their sense for profits, their father took them into the private bank of T. (for Thomas) Mellon...
Pittsburgh has always believed that the Mellons wanted Paul to be the industrialist, Dick the banker, a division of labor roughly similar to that of their fathers. But quiet, easy-going Paul rebelled at his destiny. After his graduation at Yale in 1929, he went to England and spent two years at Cambridge University, got another B. A. Back in the U. S. he talked of becoming a publisher. Finally he bowed to his father's wish, has been cramming spasmodically in Mellon National since 1931. He last made news when he and Lucius Beebe, famed japestering newsman...
...Post Office inspectors reported that they could not find a number of official letters of Mr. Brown's including one to Andrew Mellon on a mail contract for a Mellon air line. A stenographer in the Department testified he had destroyed 24 drawerfuls of papers after conferring with Mr. Brown's secretary. Senator Austin, a Republican member of the Black Committee, hastening to put a better face on this disclosure, asked: "Were they not just papers relating to eligibility, civil service examinations and such things as an opposing party might use if it came into office?" "That...
...last section of a connection with Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk 6 Western at Gilbert, W. Va. Another 7 mi. was built between Olmos and Quwmado Valley, Texas by Southern Pacific. Not included in last year's total was the 12½-mi. spur which Andrew William Mellon's little Montour finally completed in the face of injunctions plastered on almost every mile post (TIME, Oct. 23). A Federal Court ruled that the Montour spur was no common carrier but a private Mellon carrier, used only by Pittsburgh Coal...