Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, waited one afternoon last week at the Gare du Lyons, Paris. In puffed a train. Out jumped a man both lean and spry. While porters panted, he sprinted with M. Rousseau for the latter's limousine, distanced newsgatherers, photographers. Then for a few days Secretary Mellon of the U. S. Treasury dwelt on the ancient Ile St. Louis, hard by Notre Dame, surrounded by the muddy Seine, ensconced at the venerable and opulent mansion of M. Rousseau whom the Secretary is said to address as "Teddy...
Parisian editors were driven rumor-frantic by Mr. Mellon's secretive arrival. So certain were they that he would go to the Hotel Crillon and at once order "a New England boiled dinner" that two of the lesser journals reported he had done so. What did this unnatural-in-an-American conduct portend? Obviously a secret conference was to be held upon the Ile St. Louis. Cherchez le conference...
...Mellon cheerful, well bronzed with vacation tan, obstinately refused to do anything but enjoy himself. He purchased outrageously hued pajamas in the Rue de la Paix. He motored innocuously in the Bois de Boulogne. He even "saw sights." Only once could it be discovered that he "dined in conference." Even that was a mere luncheon at the home of M. Rousseau, attended by two U. S. financiers: Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank and Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. Finally Mr. Mellon dropped in at the U. S. Embassy and was reminded of a duty...
Next day Mr. Mellon crossed the Channel, said to London newsgatherers: "I have some private business to transact in this country. My son is here and I have come to join...
...cables came "news" that Messrs. Mellon, Strong and Gilbert discussed privately and portentously last week the interdependent structure of reparations, debts...