Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ogden Livingston Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury, let it be known that he would go to Indiana to speak for Candidate Hoover. When Candidate Watson heard this he was furious. He lumbered over to the Treasury Department to see Secretary Mellon. It was reported that during the interview he asked Mr. Mellon if this was what Mr. Mellon called "straight shooting." Mr. Mellon, powerfully, persistently neutral, did not agree with Mr. Watson's definition of a "straight shooter." Mr. Watson left the Treasury promising to war on the Administration from then until June if Mr. Mills was allowed...
Second player-"Andrew Mellon...
...Excelsior. One morning there called for him a twinkling limousine in which sat a scrubby bearded Roman of alert, engaging mien. Soon Agent Gilbert stepped into the limousine and sped away for a day of motoring and converse with Finance Minister Count Giuseppe Volpi, famed co-negotiator with Secretary Mellon of the Italo-U. S. debt settlement (TIME...
...chief desires of the Democrats are repeal of the estate tax, and lowering of the corporate income tax from the 13½% now levied to 11%, instead of only to 12%, as recommended by Secretary Mellon...
When Secretary of the Treasury Mellon testified before the Senate investigating committee in regard to the bonds contributed to the Republican Party by Harry F. Sinclair, the newspapers generally gave the Secretary credit for his action, but the committee's prosecutor let Boston know that he disapproved of Mellon's action by pointing out that Mellon must have known from the beginning of the iniquity attached to Sinclair's contribution. Mellon refused to censure Will Hay's acceptance of the money or to give any information to the committee at the time. Senator Walsh said that when Mellon was made...