Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Painter Salisbury has done the portraits of England's King, Queen and Archbishop of Canterbury. Many a U. S. Tycoon, including George F. Baker, the late great Elbert Gary, and Andrew Mellon, has sat for the Salisbury brush. The Coolidge portraits should be finished in another fortnight. President and Mrs. Coolidge have agreed to sit daily...
Since the President-Elect obviously had not altered his homeward journey solely for the good of the Utah's sailors, Washington rumored and conjectured reasons for the alteration. Some said that Mr. Hoover was returning because of unexpected opposition to supposed members of his cabinet-Andrew Mellon in particular, or he was coming home to save the Kellogg-Briand Peace Treaty, or the trouble was that Hubert Work, Republican National Committee Chairman, had planned to take "patronage" (i.e., job issuing) out of Congressional hands and into the committee's and his own, and Mr. Hoover was going...
...Andrew Mellon's bookkeeping has been widely and highly praised for seven and three-quarters years. It has also had its detractors. The Mellon estimates of Treasury surplus have been wrong often and far enough to cause some people to suggest that the Secretary of the Treasury's calculations are not purely arithmetic, that they are sometimes tinctured with policy if not politics. In his own party, Mr. Mellon has been frequently flayed by Michigan's Senator Couzens. Democrats in the House have kept up an intermittent fire. Last week, Democrat John Nance Garner of Texas, minority...
...upon these two items-Greek loan and Steel refund-that Democrat Garner pounced in a speech designed to embarrass Mr. Mellon thoroughly. Said Mr. Garner: "In order to induce you to pass it [Greek loan], he [Mr. Mellon] made a misleading-and the facts show, it seems to me-a deliberately false statement as to . . . the prospects of our Treasury...
...dating back to 1917, were not made until 1923 or later because the claimants had not known there was any chance of recovery. The claims have not yet been paid because of the intricacy of opposing contentions, the delays of tax appeal. Democrat Garner wanted to know why Mr. Mellon could not have delayed such refunds a little longer...