Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commerce, submitted to President Coolidge a legislative program in the interest of his businessmen friends. He urged: ratification of the Berenger-Mellon French debt agreement, reduction of corporation income taxes, early enactment of the McFadden-Pepper Branch Banking bill...
Garrard B. Winston, Under Secretary of the Treasury, able right-hand man of Secretary Mellon, announced his resignation last week. The reason, he said, is an urgent desire to return to his law practice in .Chicago. At 44, Mr. Winston is one of the oldest of the many young men whom Secretary Mellon had lifted into important positions in the Treasury Department. Suave, diplomatic, he was often seen about town in Washington and was able to accomplish important errands for his reticent chief in Continental capitals. His most distinguished achievement was helping Secretary Mellon arrange the debt-funding agreements...
...Jack") Garner of Texas, ranking minority member of the committee, arrived wearing a new two-gallon sombrero. Later he called informally on Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and they debated the merits of the Democratic and Republican tax cutting schemes...
...radio regulation bill, alien property settlement, Muscle Shoals leasing or sale, railroad consolidation, government shipping business, national waterways and the Great Lakes dispute (TIME, Nov. 22), action on Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report on the Philippines (see p. 8), Lausanne Treaty, ratification or rejection of the Berenger-Mellon French debt pact, farm relief, World Court (an issue which is now fast fading), use of the Treasury surplus for income tax reduction...
...after the announcement of Secretary Mellon's proposal, the White House Spokesman issued a plea for non-partisan consideration of tax relief, and said that, after consideration, he was inclined to be in favor of the Mellon plan...