Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year's Day at the Treasury Department. Instead of making resolutions for the future, the Treasury custom is to review the past. Secretary Mellon issued his report on fiscal* 1928. Meantime, Brigadier-General Herbert Mayhew Lord, Director of the Budget, worked away at plans for fiscal 1929 preparatory to laying them before President Coolidge at Brule next month. Secretary Mellon began by talking about the biggest figures of all on the national ledger-the national debt. It had been reduced by $907,000,000, bringing it down to $17,604,000,000. The average rate of interest paid upon...
William Larimer Mellon, Pittsburgh, banker, nephew of the Secretary of the Treasury...
...Mellon: "Good morning, Mr. President. I am leaving for the convention and have come to say good...
There was no pretense of work next day at the Department of Commerce. Telegrams rained in from President Coolidge, Vice President Dawes, Charles Evans Hughes, Andrew William Mellon and all the obvious people also from Dr. Frank Crane, sermonizer, who said "tickled to death," and Morris Gest, theatrical producer, who said: "My father and mother have been praying for you in Berlin...
...fact. They telephoned to Vice President Dawes in Evanston, Ill. He was most agreeable to running again if drafted. His chief proponent, Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mc-Cormick went to bed believing the matter was settled. She was awakened about 6 a. m. and asked to go back to Secretary Mellon's room. The conference had decided that Mr. Dawes had been too anti-administration. Who else would please Illinois? Senator Borah had put in his word for Curtis earlier. Channing Harris Cox of Massachusetts had been blocked by Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, who wanted the nomination himself and would...