Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they could have called on seven other Cabinet members who were holding receptions in keeping with the annual custom. Only Attorney General Sargent, whose wife had gone home to frosty Vermont, and Secretary of the Interior Work, who is a widower, did not serve tea. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, with his son Paul, received at his apartment on Massachusetts Avenue...
Secretaries Mellon, Hoover and James J. Davis (Labor) 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 War. Of the mighty works of Messrs. Mellon and Hoover, much has been said; but what of Mr. Davis, that handsome Moose, who likes so well to write of his iron-puddling days, who runs the youngest department of the Cabinet...
...Rumors in November, which intimated the resignations of Secretaries Kellogg and Mellon, have now died down...
...Congressmen, not the least of whom is Senator Edwards of New Jersey, demanded that "legalized murder" by the Government be stopped. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon announced last week that he was opposed to the use of poison to enforce the law, but that formula "No. 5" would have to stay until a nonremovable, nonpoisonous denaturant* could be found by Government chemists...
...record their every movement while sleeping. The most nervous subject stirred once every eight minutes. The most inert, once every 25 minutes. The average: 13 minutes between stirs. Purpose of the experiment: to discover the efficiency of beds, springs, mattresses, pillows.?H. M. Johnson and G. 'E. Weigand, Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh...