Word: mellonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge indicated that he stood firmly behind the $225,000,000 tax reduction suggestions of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon...
...President was so pleased with reports from his Cabinet on U. S. business conditions that, rather than let Secretaries Hoover, Mellon and Jardine issue their findings perfunctorily, the President lumped what they had told him and expatiated on Prosperity...
...annuity. These were first scores in a new campaign announced the week before. Chairman of the committee is General John J. Pershing; executive chairman is George Wharton Pepper, onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania; treasurer is Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. (Some thought that Secretary Mellon gave last week's gifts; they were anonymous). Associated with these are Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington, whose seat is in the cathedral, other clergymen and potent laymen...
...Homer Saint-Gaudens, when he went abroad last spring to invite certain artists to show their work, did not, as has previously been mandatory, limit each exhibitor to one picture. By including fewer artists, he allowed each one to send several representations. Lay visitors?including Calvin Coolidge, Andrew W. Mellon, Paul Claudel?were dazzled as they looked at the blobs of irregular fire against the walls of the Institute; never before has the International hung so many modernists or rated them so in the prize awards...
Than Secretary of the Treasury Mellon few persons are more dignified. Than rats and cockroaches few creatures are more undignified. Newsgatherers, who love nothing so well as the incongruous, had fun last week reporting how "rats and cockroaches in force are now picking on" Secretary Mellon. The genesis of these reports was that, with the razing of some old buildings across 15th Street from the Treasury Building in Washington (where the new Department of Commerce building is to rise), rodents and insects were noticed in unusual numbers near the treasury coal and trash vaults. Bug-catcher's were...