Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Jan. 10, you state: "Secretaries Mellon, Hoover and James J. Davis have served since the beginning of President Harding's administration (almost six years). No cabinet trio has continued in office together for so long since the Civil...
...Harding appointed » him Federal Prohibition Commissioner he held the center of the Prohibition Enforcement stage; since April, 1925, when General Lincoln C. Andrews became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition, he has danced through an obscure and silent role in a chorus of underlings.* Secretary Mellon was obviously reluctant to appoint him to the new post of power, but the Anti-Saloon League desired...
Stocks. When Secretary Mellon speaks optimistically of U. S. business and credit conditions, as he did last week upon sailing for a brief vacation in Europe, buyers of stock exchange securities become optimistic. Their enthusiasm last week pushed the price of U. S. Steel common stock to 165%, General Motors to 182 ⅜, Du Pont to 216 ⅞ Delaware & Hudson to 195 ½. These were record quotations for these important securities...
Nature Of The Debts: Were the sums loaned originally regarded by Congress not as "loans" but as "contributions" to a common cause? Secretary Mellon's answer...
...curious company of men shuffled and smartcracked their way in to a dinner one evening last week at the Astor Hotel, Manhattan. There were enough of them to have raised the census at least a decimal point, and their aggregate income would have given Secretary of the Treasury Mellon considerable satisfaction. Yet loitering lobbyites who glanced up at them as they entered the hotel, and the nimble-witted telephone girl who placed their after-dinner calls, recognized scarcely a face. James J. Walker, the mayor, they recognized. But he was only a guest. And deep-jowled Irvin S. Cobb...