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...proud, bantam-sized Catalan who exploded onto the political scene in 1901 as founder of a Catalan regionalist party, rose to fame as an ardent spokesman for Catalonian autonomy. Hand in hand with Cambo's political success went his reputation as a financial wizard and "the Andrew Mellon of Spain." When Cambo's political party went down to defeat at the polls on the verge of Spain's civil war, Cambo wisely decamped, ended up in Buenos Aires, where he lived handsomely on the returns of his insurance and electric companies...
...Gift of the week: to Chatham College, formerly Pennsylvania College for Women, $3,500,000 from the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. The gift, which must be matched by July 1957, will go into permanent endowment...
...favoritism for the rich . . . The Republican 'trickle-down' tax philosophy of Andrew Mellon and the 19205 was resurrected in the 1954 G.O.P. tax bill recommended by the Eisenhower Administration and passed by the G.O.P. 83rd Congress. For every dollar of tax relief to stockholders, the Eisenhower Administration felt we could only 'afford' to give less than a nickel to working mothers, a little over a penny to families with foster children, less than a dime to families with heavy medical expense...
Well established as one of the U.S.'s best-known modern composers, Harris at 57 works under a comfortable grant from the Mellon educational trust, is as prolific as ever. He has extensively revised the Seventh Symphony since it was first played in Chicago in 1952, has already started his eighth (specifically designed for recording) and ninth ("On the words of Walt Whitman"). Says he: "I am trying to achieve a dynamic form, something that grows like a tree grows. This new form is something I believe America is going to produce...
...spring of 1939 an imposing building was rising in Washington-the new National Gallery of Art, destined (it was hoped) to become one of the world's great repositories of culture, made possible by a gift from the late Andrew Mellon and a promise of perpetual maintenance from Congress. Before long, the gallery would open, with a great fanfare. Inside its vast walls of naked, flesh-colored Tennessee marble, the public would find a trove of masterpieces from the Mellon collection-such unparalleled works as Raphael's Alba Madonna, Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi...