Word: mellone
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When Goelet Professor of Medieval History Michael McCormick opened his mail on Monday to find a letter of congratulation from the president of the Mellon Foundation, he was shocked...
McCormick had received the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award—a distinction he didn’t even know existed...
According to Mellon Foundation Vice President Harriet Zuckerman, winners of the Mellon award are nominated by a colleague and then reviewed by a panel of their peers...
...book presents a rich cast of characters. Here's industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1889 calling the accumulation of wealth "one of the worst species of idolatry" and hilariously praising the virtues of "honest poverty." Here's Andrew Mellon, Treasury Secretary under Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, arguing that when initiative is crippled by high taxes, an individual "will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends." This might have been written yesterday...
...person of unshakeable integrity and loyalty and a deep commitment to scholarship, family, friends, and institutions,” said Zeph Stewart, the Mellon professor of humanities emeritus and Hammond’s close friend...