Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before Congress adjourned. He showed visible displeasure at the practice which has grown up of having the Chief Executive at the Capitol to approve bills without pondering their wisdom. Nevertheless, he set to work with his flourishing big double-C signature. Cabinet members (all except Secretary of the Treasury Mellon were present) and learned Senators were called to his side to give a word or two of hasty advice. Six minor bills (such as "an act to reinstate Joe Burton Coursey in the West Point Military Academy") aroused the President's suspicion, so he decided to take them home...
Andrew William Mellon...
...Adopted a resolution directing the World War Foreign Debt Commission to inquire whether any private banking interests had made or were preparing to make a loan to France. Two days later Andrew William Mellon, Chairman of the Commission, replied that he had inquired in all likely quarters and found no trace of such a loan...
Andrew William Mellon: Who with rare courage and sagacity has conducted on enduring principles the public finance of a vast and complex nation...
...Arts. The Degree of Doctor of Laws was awarded to six men, Joseph Lee '83, philanthropist and social service worker, George Gray Sears '85, physician, Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, lawyer and international economist, John Hansen Thomas Main, President of Grinnel College, George Fisher Baker '99, financier, and Andrew William Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury...