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...Enforcer. The Al Capone and Waxie Gordon stories will remind readers past their 30s that Prohibition racketeers, large & small, had come to be an accepted part of most U.S. communities. To get Capone became almost an obsession with President Herbert Hoover. Said Hoover to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon: "Remember, now; I want that man Capone in jail...
When crusty old Andrew Mellon was Secretary of the Treasury in 1926, he gave an up & coming young doctor named Thomas Parran a big chance-an appointment as an Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service. Last week the trustees of Mellon's huge fortune presented $13,600,000 to the University of Pittsburgh for a new Graduate School of Public Health. The man named dean of the new school was Dr. Thomas Parran...
Into the Firing Line. But long before he left-this week, in fact-he had to deal with the standpatters. Despite the forces arrayed against him, Big Jim was not without weapons of his own. His rear was secure. The Republican organization of western Pennsylvania, led by Banker Richard Mellon, was solidly behind him. The Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) delegates had already announced their intention of following his lead. Above all, he would still be governor of the state for 2½ more years, with 40,000 state jobs at his disposal...
Over this empire, Bill Mellon, as president and later as chairman, kept a tight hold-until last week. Then, a few days before his 80th birthday, Oilman Mellon announced his retirement...
...take his place he picked Gulf President James Frank Drake, 67, a Mellon-trained man who has worked for the family since 1919. Into the presidency went Vice President Sidney A. Swensrud, 47, an oilman right after old Bill Mellon's heart. An honor graduate of Harvard's business school, he left a teaching job there to join Standard Oil Co. (of Ohio) in 1928, was vice president in charge of production when Bill Mellon hired him a year ago. With Swensrud as chief administrative officer, Gulf is certain to continue on its big-spending Mellon...