Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is privately close to large bituminous interests. No list of the operators attending Secretary Davis' conference was made public...
...Cutting. After weeks of work, the Ways & Means Committee reported a Revenue Act of 1928 designed to cut U. S. citizens' taxes by $232,735,000 net. Secretary Mellon had recommended a cut of only 225 millions. Democrats and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce had agitated for a cut of 400 millions or more. The House settled itself to scrutinize the bill, to debate its features...
Besides demanding insistently, the Chambermen had criticized Secretary Mellon's figures in such a way as to make his caution seem like cruelty-to-taxpayers. So last week Secretary Mellon backed up President Coolidge's indigation with some of his own. Secretary Mellon wrote a "cudgelling...
...Chamber of Commerce. He told Mr. Pierson, who is a banker, that he was surprised by the Chamber's "misconception of facts"; by its "generalizations" about the surplus, which it had no accurate means of estimating; by downright errors in its figures. "Such carelessness," said Secretary Mellon, "is perhaps excusable in a general discussion . . . Certainly it is hard to defend in a report which furnishes the basis for an at- tack on official estimates. . . . This is hardly worthy of a businessmen's report." Banker Pierson, unabashed, stuck to his guns. He intimated that the Chamber would reply...
Where do the sons of famed men go to school? Most people know that John Coolidge goes to Amherst. Fewer people would be able to state that the son of Andrew W. Mellon goes to Yale, as does the son of John Joseph Pershing. The sons of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. attend Princeton and Dartmouth. Last month a person who was watching lads at play at Peekskill Military Academy, Peekskill, N. Y., pointed to a dark faced, mop-headed, loud-shouting little chap. "Who may that be?" he enquired. "That," he was told, "is Alfredo Calles, son of Plutarco Elias...