Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the brown-paneled Council Chamber of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, last week, went President Hoover, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Chief Justice Taft, Senator Reed, Smoot, and many a member of the American Institute of Architects. They were gathered to talk of Washington's development as a beautiful city, to pledge allegiance to a capital building program now well under way. Speeches were made. Models of new Government buildings were admiringly examined. A cinema of the capital's rude start, its ragged growth, its sudden bursts of classic beauty, its future nobility, was shown. This...
...McCoy is only one of three Treasury estimators. His figures go to Secretary Mellon and Undersecretary Mills who place them beside the work of his two peers. The McCoy calculations, however, are Secretary Mellon's chief guide in striking a reasonable balance and announcing: "The Treasury estimates that...
Point No. 2 against Mr. Mellon was as old as his service in the Treasury. Nevertheless, to clear it up once and for all Mr. Mellon sent to the committee, through...
Pennsylvania's Senator Reed, a succinct statement of his business affairs, the abandonment of which before 1921 qualified him for his post. Said Mr. Mellon...
Secretary Mellon's statement so impressed the Judiciary Committee that without formal action it agreed not to question him further. Senator McKellar, however, 'thought he saw a last opportunity for nipper-snapping in the fact that Gulf Oil operates 29 "sea vessels," that as a stockholder in Gulf Oil Mr. Mellon is an "owner ... in part" of these vessels...