Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee of Seniors consists of W. Hobson, S. F. Kennedy, and A. C. Robertson. The members of the Junior committee are P. Mellon, B. D. Paine, and L. H. Smith...
...aspect which is, of course, enhanced most of all by his well-earned reputation for patient industry and again, perhaps, by his familiarity with rivers and dams and husbanding food through lean seasons. Any man of distinctive personality and appearance resembles some animal. Senator Borah is a bear; Secretary Mellon, an aging horse of fine blood; Senator Heflin, an astounding whale calf; Senator Johnson, a caged lion; Senator Norris, an owl; Senator Watson, a roguish elephant; Charles Evans Hughes, a lofty mountain goat; Will H. Hays, a monkey; Curtis Dwight Wilbur, a stork. Herbert Clark Hoover is a beaver...
...unusual trio-Andrew William Mellon, William Morgan Butler and Will H. Hays-whom Inquisitor Walsh assembled one morning last week for examination. In 1923, Mr. Hays had tried to pass some of Harry Ford Sinclair's oily bonds to Mr. Mellon and Mr. Butler, in return for cash for the G. O. P. deficit. They had declined. But in the four subsequent years, long after all knew of Sinclair's crockery and all during the Senate's efforts to unearth it, none of the trio had breathed a word of the sly Hays plan...
...Mellon explained: "I have plenty of troubles...
...Mellon and Mr. Butler were absolved by Inquisitor Walsh of anything nefarious, though citizens still wondered at their silent sheltering of Mr. Hays...