Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Mellon got through the jam and reached his seat, 30 minutes late...
Finance, Taxation. "The record of the United States Treasury under Secretary Mellon stands unrivalled and unsurpassed...
...matters. Discovering what Pennsylvania would do was like peeping up the chimney for Santa Claus. The figure whom the Hooverites first saw in the chimney, and whom a nettled press credited with being the real though surprising Santa Claus, was not the frosted patrician, the supposedly all-potent Secretary Mellon. It was sooty and corpulent William S. Vare, the Philadelphia boss whom the U. S. Senate has suspected of, and rejected for, corruption...
Secretary Mellon had descended from his train nervously, shyly, and hurried to shut himself in a hotel suite. He was clinging to his maxim, "There's luck in leisure." Also, obviously, he was under great pressure to draft President Coolidge if possible. He had learned, or accepted, nothing final before leaving Washington.* He still sought conference with other leaders before speaking...
...foot on British soil. The only reason given him was "instructions from the Home Office." Befuddled, vexed, Mr. Thaw told reporters: "This is amazing. I cannot understand it at all. England was fair and square when I was here before, 23 years ago. ... I am a friend of Secretary Mellon. I have wired him. . . ." Later, Mr. Thaw obtained a French visa, left the Aquitania at Cherbourg, motored to Paris. But Secretary Mellon had not helped...