Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have to show a tax receipt?" asked Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, wary billionaire...
...Mellon," said an election clerk in Pittsburgh, as she proudly handed him a ballot...
...many another anti-Administration man would champion such a plan. So what could be wiser than for the President to be Champion Tax Cutter No. 1? In the first Cabinet meeting after election day he explained his scheme, then he held a short conference with Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and General Lord, Director of the Budget Bureau. It mattered not if the general policy of Mr. Mellon was to use Treasury surplus to retire the national debt; this time the President had to make a political move and make it quickly. The announcement came from the White House...
...Coolidge sits in the White House blinking his dull eyes, with Mellon at his right hand, while the ravishment of decency and the assault upon the ballot is being perpetrated...
...tons of U. S. coal have been going to Great Britain.* But equally important is the domestic fear of a strike. Because of this nervous demand employers of non-union miners are finding some trouble in getting sufficient labor. Thus last week the open shop Pittsburgh Coal Co., a Mellon family holding company, offered increased wages. Higher wage scales were posted at many another mine...