Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Messrs. Andrew W. Mellon, Frank B. Kellogg and Herbert C. Hoover called at the White House to discuss with the President the progress of the Debt Funding negotiations with the Italian Commission...
...Italian Debt Mission, headed by Count Volpi, last week got down to business with the American Debt Commission, headed by Secretary Mellon. Observers remarked that the Italians appear to be a new kind of debtor-different at least from the other major debtors who have come to Washington to arrange their debts...
...suggestions at least one of which appeared to "catch." He suggested an unpaid board of tax experts to study equalization of tax schedules and to simplify them so that anyone can understand them. Both his Republican and his Democratic hearers appeared to like this idea. He said Secretary Mellon was "eternally right" in saying that lower surtaxes would yield more revenue. He wanted much lower inheritance taxes?say, 15% instead of 40% maximum?but did not think they should be abolished. He wanted a board created to clear up ancient tax cases from 1916 and 1917 "with...
...oldest legitimate theatrical producers in the country. . . . This tax is one of the things that practically make spoken drama extinct. I think I know more about the theatre than Secretary Mellon does. . . . The movie show can be carried in a round tin can, the vaudeville sketch provides its own lines and scenery, all baseball needs to operate is bats and balls; but the legitimate producer must make his own scenery and pay his actors and the crew of the theatre. All the movie companies, baseball and vaudeville have paid dividends, but no legitimate company is able to do so. Otis...
...state in your letter that you have reason to believe that Secretary Mellon and M. Caillaux could have reached a settlement had it not been that they feared the disapproval of the legislative bodies of their respective countries. It is evident, Mr. Piez, that you do not know Mr. Mellon. I venture to say that Mr. Mellon would never be embarrassed in doing what he thought was the wise thing simply because somebody else might disapprove it. If he thought he was doing the right thing and the wise thing, he would do it and let responsibility for rejecting...