Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cornerstone of the new Internal Revenue Building was laid last week. Secretary Mellon, of course, was the official mason. It was raining, and he had to lean out from under a canopy to make the historic trowel strokes. Cameramen liked the pose and begged him, stooped over and splashed by the downpour, to "hold it." Always obliging, Mr. Mellon "held it" while the photographers jostled and squirmed for good positions...
...raining when he returned to the White House late Sunday afternoon after a misadventurous outing. Ten minutes later, tired though he was, he began to receive potent U. S. officials whom he had summoned. Came Secretary of State Stimson, Assistant Secretary Castle, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Under Secretary Mills (laden with papers), Senators Borah, Watson, Smoot, Congressmen Tilson and Garner...
...Yale's annual Tap Day (senior society elections), held last week, the first man chosen by Scroll & Key was Woodruff R. Tappen, junior varsity stroke oar, tapped by Paul Mellon, son of the Secretary of the Treasury. The seventh man chosen by Skull & Bones was Waldo W. Green, football captain-elect, tapped by George Harris Crile, son of Dr. George W. Crile, famed Cleveland physician whose clinic was last week a scene of catastrophe...
Manhattan's Jimmy Walker has the narrow oval head; Pittsburgh's Andrew Mellon is pronouncedly among the pear-heads...
Thus was the public prepared for a tremendous fiscal-esthetic event. The art world whispered names that would surely stir the auction-Mellon, Bache, Widener, Ringling. Preparations were made to broadcast the epochal proceedings to the nation. When the bald auctioneer briskly mounted the rostrum, he surveyed a tight-packed attendance of more than...