Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elected new president of the A. B. A. was dapper Frank J. ("Million-Dollar") Hogan of Washington, "lawyer's lawyer," whose defense clients in suits brought by the Government have included the late Oilman Edward L. ("Teapot Dome") Doheny and Andrew William Mellon.. President Hogan's first act was to ask for a committee to defend citizens, "poor or rich," from invasion of liberties guaranteed them by the Bill of Rights (first ten Constitutional Amendments...
...August 1936, Dr. Ralph Robertson Mellon of Pittsburgh* stood at the bedside of a patient stricken with deadly peritonitis. In desperation he fed her a German-made drug, never before used in the U. S. The patient rapidly recovered. Dr. Mellon then plunged into an intensive study of the action of this drug, a combination of benzene, a sulfur compound and naphthalene, called prontosil. He learned that: 1) one of its three ingredients, naphthalene, was medically worthless; 2) sulfanilamide, a cheaper U. S. product, composed of the other two ingredients, would do everything prontosil could do. Last fortnight, together with...
...SULFANILAMIDE THERAPY OF BACTERIAL INFECTIONS- Ralph R. Mellon, Paul Gross and Frank B. Cooper-Charles C. Thomas...
...soon after Homer Stille Cummings became Attorney General, his department again started gunning for Alcoa. As a private lawyer, Mr. Cummings had lost a court skirmish with the aluminum company; hardly had he moved to Washington when the Government accused old Andrew Mellon of tax evasion, his chief company of monopoly. Because his. R. B. Mellon's and Chairman Davis' families own 51% of Alcoa's stock, Andrew Mellon, though dead now, was listed as a defendant last week. Actual suit in this anti-trust case was brought by Homer Cummings more than a year ago (TIME...
...indictment. There's nothing I consider more un-American and unsportsmanlike than the fixing of prices." ¶ Pressed its antimonopoly trial of vast Aluminum Co. of America. Year ago last week the Department of Justice filed suit for the dissolution of this $236,000,000 foundation of the Mellon empire. By one legal maneuver after another ALCOA delayed the trial until it was finally scheduled to start May 2 in Manhattan. Three weeks ago the Department of Justice filed a petition to subpoena ALCOA's files on all transactions relating to its growth; seeking to limit the final...