Word: mellonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge went to Pittsburgh. Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, conducted his chief & Mrs. Coolidge to the Mellon mansion near the smoky fork of the Allegheny & Monongahela Rivers. In the morning they breakfasted with the Secretary's brother, Richard B. Mellon, in another Mellon mansion. Then President Coolidge drove through the streets to visit, among other places, the Fort Pitt blockhouse and the Washington Cross-his Chief of Staff (see p. 10). a time when George Washington was swept off a raft in the icy Allegheny and almost drowned...
...with the pioneers who "could face facts," "grapple with realities" and subdue savages; touching briefly on George Washington, the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh's present bank clearances (9.198 billions) ; recounting with admiration the rise of an alien child, Andrew Carnegie, and his beneficent works; hailing the Mellon brothers, the "distinctly American effort" of the painting exhibition and Andrew Carnegie once more, President Coolidge finished on a note especially pitched for Pittsburgh. "There are still some," he said, "who sit apart, who do not see,, who cannot understand. To them our industrial life is the apotheosis of selfishness. They...
...home cities of the Cabinet: Frank Billings Kellogg Minneapolis Andrew W. Mellon Pittsburgh Dwight Filley Davis St. Louis Curtis Dwight Wilbur Washington John G. Sargent Ludlow, Vt. Hubert Work Pueblo, Col William M. Jardine Manhattan, Kan Herbert Clark Hoover Stanford, Calif. James John Davis Pittsburgh Harry S. New Indianapolis...
...consorted with criminals and took as his bedfellow a grafter and bribetaker [Jesse Smith], who afterwards suicided. . . . Coolidge never lifted a hand. He remained as mum and inactive as a Boston oyster stranded on the beach in the month of August. . . . "Coolidge to this day retains Andrew W. Mellon as Secretary of Treasury. When Mellon was appointed, the great financial interests no longer exercised a mere influence - they moved in and took possession...
Premier Raymond Poincarè, who also functions as Finance Minister, issued a statement to the effect that he was "working upon a solution of the question." The great difficulty involved is 1) to get the Chamber and Senate to approve the Mellon-Berenger accord without a safeguarding clause (entitling France to stop payments to her creditors should Germany cease her reparation payments) or 2) to get Washington to accept the proposed safeguard clause...