Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First of the Cabinet to arrive in Kansas City was Secretary Work of the Interior Department, active Hooverizer. Postmaster New, the two Secretaries Davis and Secretary Jardine were expected. Secretary Mellon approached with the potent Pennsylvania delegation...
Candidate Hoover last week acknowledged Secretary Mellon's cautious endorsement of Hooverism, by letting it be known -some said he told President Coolidge in person-that if President Coolidge would run again, he, the Administration's busy Beaver Man would of course withdraw his own candidacy and continue at his duties...
...What Mr. Mellon said about tax reduction, and what the House said, and what Mr. Mellon said next, and what the Senate then said, and what the Senate and House disagreed on, interested citizens less than what the Senate and House finally agreed on last week. Mr. Mellon's first "limit of safety," announced last autumn, was reduction of $225,000,000. The House promptly voted a reduction of $289,000,000. The Senate waited to see the April income tax returns. When these were known, Mr. Mellon reduced his limit to $201,000,000. The Senate then voted...
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon last winter told the Senators who investigated the transactions of the Continental Trading Co. that he knew five years ago of a strange political contribution of that company's most conspicuous figure, Harry Ford Sinclair. Last week, Secretary Mellon notified the Senate, in response to a query, that, as a result of Senate investigations, Harry Ford Sinclair and his three friends-Col. Robert W. Stewart of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, Harry M. Blackmer (fugitive from justice) and James E. O'Neil (fugitive from justice), all of whom participated in the Continental...
Andrew W. Mellon's private business associates control it. (The Mellons also own the Koppers Co. which manufactures equipment for making artificial gas.) The Mellons are at least not opposed to vast business consolidations, which violate no laws. They have shared through their various companies in many a vast concretion of interests, and Wall Street is certain that their $100,000,000 Brooklyn Union Gas will go into Consolidated...