Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republicans in high places have done little to isolate themselves from the lavish vote-buying by their party brothers in Pennsylvania and Illinois beyond snorting, with Secretary Mellon, that such tactics are a regrettable necessity. But last week an orator fairly high in the hearts if not in the councils of Republicans let it be known that his political conscience, at least, did not condone Insull subsidies and the like. It was Col. Theodore Roosevelt instructing young Republicans in Manhattan in the way they should go. Said...
Round an ample table at the Hotel Royal in aristocratic Evianles-Bains three famed U. S. citizens lifted their glasses high last week. What was in the glasses was nobody's business. But what was Secretary Mellon, who had just returned from conferring with Finance Minister Count Volpi of Italy, saying to Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who had just conferred at Antibes, French Riviera, with Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and at Geneva, Switzerland, with Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Director of the German Reichsbank? What, moreover, was Agent General...
...Paul Mellon, whose father guided him through Rome and pointed out "the glory that was. . . ." Paul had recently emerged from his Freshman year at Yale, where he was awarded a prize for "excellence in English composition" and was also elected to the Yale Daily News...
...indispensable increased taxation along with the principle of important economies." Continuing, M. Poincaré mentioned the debts of France to the U. S. and Britain equivocally, but in such terms as to leave no doubt at the time that he would not attempt to secure ratification for either the Mellon-Berenger or Caillaux-Churchill debt pact until the Chamber reassembles from its imminent summer recess.* Finally he demanded and secured, for the first time in French history, the passage of a "five minute rule" against filibustering. "Gagged." During the ensuing debate on a motion of confidence several Communist Deputies attempted...
...What did Secretary Mellon and Chancellor Churchill figuratively call each other...