Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their elation at finding such an issue for the coming campaign, the Democrats at once found Coolidge, Mellon, Hughes and Hoover full of the sin of omission, for the kept silence about conditions when they must have been aware of them. For a counter-attack the best the Republicans have been able to do is to make an ineffectual attempt to implicate Al Smith in the mesh, at the same time maintaining that none of the guilty ones are in the party at present and that they are not liable for the sins of their predecessors. But the genie...
Photographers begged for one more picture, on the hotel steps with the manager. Mayor Walker, letting Secretary Mellon wait, obliged. Then he motored to the Treasury Department. The chauffeur wanted to stop at the Secretary's private entrance but Mayor Walker wisecracked: "Better go in the regular way, although I've been thrown out of better places than that...
Secretary Mellon, waiting inside with Attorney General Sargent and Postmaster General New, at last received the Mayor, who thereupon had to be photographed for 15 minutes more. While the cameras ticked, Postmaster General New remarked: "It's a hell of a long time for a New Yorker to be still...
Newsgatherers asked later what the two had talked about. "About three minutes," grinned the Mayor. He said President Coolidge was "a peach;" Postmaster General New, "all to the good;" Attorney General Sargent, "pretty hard-boiled;" Secretary Mellon, "one of the most delightful personalities I ever met. I can see why people who know him like Mr. Mellon. I liked him first rate...
...must to all men, Death came at Sewickley, Pa., last week, to a 69-year-old millionaire who had risen from a small stained glass maker to be the largest plate-glass manufacturer in the world. He was on boards of great banks, Mellon National, Federal Reserve, was director of a Bell Telephone Co., trustee for Pittsburgh's Associated Charities, president of national trade associations. Yet all his life he was a sailor-man at heart, romantic, adventurous. Captain Charles William Brown, son of Jacob B., typical New England Ship Master, went to sea out of his native Newburyport...