Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular Republican organization with steamroller tactics that recalled the days of "Uncle Joe" Cannon. The Cabinet. Having been informed that both houses of Congress had passed the McNary-Haugen bill, President Coolidge called for his Cabinet, found that it unanimously disapproved of the bill. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon had already made public his attitude in a detailed statement showing that the bill is unsound, unworkable and highly costly. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, who would have to direct the farm experiment if the President makes it law, abhors it. Applying the British principle of Cabinet government, it would be necessary...
Government Contention. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon has decided that in 1913 Ford stock was worth between $2,500 and $5,500 a share. If so, the minority stockholders who sold in 1919 owe the Government back income taxes of $15,000,000 to $30,000,000, as may decide the Special U. S. Board of Tax Appeals that has been sitting in Washington. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Daniel C. Roper had no authority to do Ford company stockholders the favor of estimating the tax value of their property. In fine, the Government has never officially decided what...
...daughter, Mrs. A. W. Bissell of Evanston, Ill., acted as his hostess. Who were the guests? It may safely be said that seldom have the President and Mrs. Coolidge sat down to dinner with so many bigwigs: British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard; Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon; Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; Associate Justice Harlan F. Stone; Major General Charles P. Summerall (Chief of Staff) ; Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania; Elbert H. Gary of U. S. Steel; Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; Henry Ford; Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central; George...
Neighborhood. Across the street stands the Leiter mansion wherein George Nathaniel Curzon, who later became the Marquess of Curzon, late famed Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, married Mary Victoria Leiter, heiress of Levi Z. Leiter, Chicago storekeeper. Andrew W. Mellon lives in an apartment a block away. Nearby is the Belgian Embassy and the home of the late Senator Lodge. The White House is ten blocks distant...
...became clear that a farm relief bill?one which he dislikes and Secretary Mellon abhors?was soon to be passed by Congress. If he vetoes it, he will promptly be told that Frank Orren Lowden or Charles Gates Dawes is as likely to be the next President of the U. S. as is Calvin Coolidge. If he signs it, he will be called upon to apologize to New England and "sound businessmen" throughout the land, and will be accused of having lost his character as a strong, silent man. Incidentally, he may find that his signature has been attached...