Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came in contact, now with men approximating those mythical beings called "statesmen,"-men like Hughes, Hoover and Mellon-men who dealt in generalities which had hardly touched him. He had a few contacts with this group and with the financial group whom he had now to deal with. There was Frank W. Stearns, Boston department-store owner, who had been his backer and adviser. He grappled Stearns to him in this contingency. He renewed an older contact with some of his Amherst classmates and associates-men like Dwight W. Morrow. He had been living in a quite different world from...
...first, he had to take advice, but did so with some hesitation. He appointed C. Bascomb Slemp as his Secretary to handle a number of political problems. He leaned on the arms of Secretaries Mellon and Hoover, but, when tax-reduction was proposed, he let Mr. Mellon float it as a trial balloon with tacit consent, before determining how strongly to support...
...with the purpose of reducing Federal expenditures. Last week, President Coolidge went before an eighth meeting to urge the same object. In Continental Memorial Hall, just a block southwest of the. White House, 2,000 people assembled to hear the President and General Lord, Director of the Budget. Messrs. Mellon, Hoover, Wilbur, Work, Gore, Stone were on the platform representing the Cabinet. General Hines, Chief of Staff, and Admiral Eberle were there likewise. "The meeting of the board of directors of a corporation with 115,000,000 stockholders," as General Lord termed it, was deemed important enough to be broadcast...
Treasury. Secretary Mellon has been known to be closely allied to the President in all matters. No reason is there for expecting his retirement...
...able, active, arduous - especially in mind. He might have had a place in Harding's cabinet, but Harding, the man of good heart, was perhaps a little repelled by Warren's swift-mindedness. The departure of Mr. Hughes breaks up the "Big Three" of the Cabinet- Hughes, Mellon, Hoover. If one of the newcomers is to take Hughes' place in the trio, it is likely to be Warren. He is not as Hoover, the man of method, of slow exactness, the efficiency expert of a Nation, nor like Mellon, a solver of the financial intricacies...