Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could not intervene, referring the miners to the courts, pronouncing collective bargaining to be "a principle now accepted in American life." Mr. Lewis repeated the miners' charge that railroads, notably the Pennsylvania, had thumbscrewed the mine operators into thumbscrewing the miners. The names "Rockefeller" and "Mellon" occurred forcibly but somewhat extraneously, in Mr. Lewis' speech...
...began replacing union men with non-union men it was, it claimed, "acting legally." According to Miner Lewis, this action was taken by Operator Warden in an effort to make a good record after the company had passed a bad year under the direction of Richard B. Mellon...
While the Committee awaited an explanation from William Morgan Butler, present G. O. P. chairman, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon explained who "Andy" was. He had, he said, received $50,000 worth of Sinclair's Liberty Bonds from Mr. Hays, who asked for $50,000 cash in exchange. "Andy" said he had declined to have anything to do with the bonds, but contributed $50,000 outright. The investigators were sorry "Andy" had been so slow to disclose this additional light on the Hays-Sinclair performance, and invited him to come over from the Treasury Department to tell more...
...telephone rang and said, "Secretary Mellon will wait 15 minutes longer for you." Mayor Walker eased into his modish overcoat and observed: "I am happy wherever I am. That's why I hate to leave...
Already Will Hays, Chairman of the National Committee in 1920, has been ingulfed by the rising tide to graft, and the waters have even beat menacingly, if ineffectively at the feet of Secretary Mellon, while the spray has carried even as far as the Chairman of the present Committee William M. Butler. The only hope the G. O. P. heads can have is to prove that no men now of rank in the party as it now stands were involved in any of the ramifications of the Teapot Dome affair, and if this fails, their prospects of a third successive...