Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There followed a few days in the Vice-Presidential suite at the New Willard Hotel and the wholesale resignation of the Cabinet - Hughes and Mellon, Hoover and Davis, New and Wallace, Work, Weeks, Daugherty and Denby - and every resignation rejected as it came. There followed the entrance into the White House with eight trunks, and the appearance of astute C. Bascom Slemp, Virginia politician-Secretary, at the Presidential elbow. Came William Morgan Butler, manufacturer and campaign manager, not yet dreaming of the Senate...
Followed Secretary Mellon's proposal of a second great post-War reduction, which sent the country ringing with applause...
...that 68th Congress have been forgotten? It fought three mighty fights. It passed a soldier bonus bill over Mr. Coolidge's veto. It passed the Mellon tax plan, much retailored to the Democratic figure. It stirred up the greatest hornet nest of a political generation, the Harding scandals -Oil, Veterans' Bureau, Department of Justice, Prohibition Enforcement-which, inch by inch, forced Denby, then Daugherty out of the Coolidge Cabinet...
...Money. It is difficult to say what Congressmen might speak for the money power, especially in an argument which lists money against money. Ogden Livingston Mills and James Wolcott Wadsworth were moneymen, but they have departed from the House and Senate, respectively. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, Secretary Mellon's haggard, Princeton-educated protege, might stand as the senatorial moneyman. In the House are New York's Snell, a florid, solid cheesemaker; Rhode Island's Richard S. Aldrich, son of the late great Senator Nelson Aldrich; and Pennsylvania's Harry Estep, a young Mellonite member...
...steps of the Treasury Building he climbed, strode into the elevator, stepped out at the second floor and entered the big, dark, deep-carpeted office of Secretary Mellon. There he examined plaster models of the Government's new office buildings. Mr. Mellon stooped to point out the details. . . . Later the President walked briskly back to the White House...