Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time fled, and still the G. O. P. knew not whom it would choose to oppose the settled choice of the Democracy next November. The uncertainty was greater than ever following Secretary Mellon's declaration last week that "many men may develop in the convention, for you never know what will happen" (TIME...
...Administration declared itself wholeheartedly on the side of Hooverism, there would have been an end not only of Candidate Lowden but of his program. But the Administration, in the person of Secretary Mellon, declared itself last fortnight not so much in favor of Hooverism as receptive to it for want of anything more perfect. There seemed to remain a cranny of doubt about Candidate Hoover's ability to bring off a Republican victory. Into this cranny Candidate Lowden hastened to drive his wedge of Midwestern warning...
...cynosure, of course, was Pennsylvania's lean, grey primate, Andrew William Mellon. For months people had been saying that the fate of Hooverism lay in the hollow of the delicately deliberate hand which runs the Treasury Department. A few forecasters, notably Col. Theodore Roosevelt, had predicted that if the anti-Administration forces beat Hoover in Indiana, the Administration's cautious senior lieutenant (Mellon) would make some gesture friendly to the industrious junior lieutenant (Hoover) who wants to carry on the Administration's work...
...Philadelphia, Mr. Mellon did ges ture, twice; once helpfully, once equivocally...
Last week, without controversy, all 20 Directors were reelected, including five Harvard men who are Directors of the Old Colony Trust Co. of Boston, traditional financial friend of the company. A 21st was also elected: Henry C. McEldowney, President of the Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh, who added Mellon strength to the strength of Old Colony, Morgan, Baker, Bankers Trust and Lee Higginson...