Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courage." ¶ Struggling into his winter overcoat, President Hoover last week went out and inaugurated Washington's baseball season at Griffith Stadium. Calmly he watched the Philadelphia Athletics beat the Washington Senators 13 to 4. With him and Mrs. Hoover were four members of the Cabinet: Secretaries Mellon, Good, Hyde, Davis...
...Cabinet officer by nipping and snapping at his ankles is the legislative pastime of not a few Senators and Congressmen. Such a nipper-snapper is Tennessee's rubicund Senator McKellar who, at the Senate's brief special session last month, raised the question of Andrew William Mellon's eligibility to serve President Hoover as Secretary of the Treasury. Always antagonistic to Secretary Mellon, Senator McKellar, by resolution, asked...
...Could Mr. Mellon continue his Treasury services without the submission of his nomination to the Senate for confirmation...
Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee set aside the McKellar complaint against President Hoover's failure to submit Mr. Mellon's nomination to the Senate, as mere legal piffling. Some 200 precedents were available to show that appointments did not require reconfirmation...
...Chapman company, announced that the Leviathan and later the ten other U. S. Lines vessels purchased from the U. S. (TIME, Feb. 18), would sell liquor outside the 12-mile limit. To support his action, Mr. Sheedy advanced the opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court in Cunard v. Mellon, 1923, in which it was decided that the 18th Amendment applied only to the territorial waters of the U. S. for domestic as well as foreign ships. It is under this decision that foreign ships bring beverage liquor into U. S. ports under seal. Said Mr. Sheedy: "All other trans...