Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yellow Peril," the ease with which oceans can be crossed, coasts shelled, bombs dropped by little yellow men or big white men. He clarioned the need for a potent standing Army, a potent Navy. Then he tore into his surest spellbinder, G. O. P. iniquities. He called Secretary Mellon a blasphemer and Candidate Hoover a Britisher. Raising his hand with terrible deliberation, he intoned: "I charge President Coolidge with misfeasance in office. . . . He kept this arch criminal Harry Daugherty at the head of the Department of Justice . . . Calvin Coolidge has done the bidding of the selfish interests every moment...
...favored the election of a President of great wealth" with the exception of George Washington. Had he been talking about Secretaries of the Treasury he must have observed that the reverse is true-the richer the Treasurer the more trusted. That is part of the secret of Andrew Mellon's wide popularity...
...status quo is still generally thought to be. Offering to replace the present administration the Democrats will have to offer some one to replace not merely President Coolidge, but the Secretary of the Treasury. Should Governor Smith pre-announce a Cabinet, the man chosen to challenge for Andrew Mellon's desk would instantly become a national cynosure...
...other three are reputedly Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Andrew W. Mellon...
...guests were Andrew William Mellon, Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, treasurer of the national committee for the Cathedral, and onetime (1922-27) U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper, highly active executive chairman of the national committee...