Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After which quaint reference by Banker James Speyer to a national custom which it is the Treasury Department's function to enforce, Secretary Andrew Mellon heard his signal services to the country acclaimed, and beheld his likeness, brushed in oils by fashionable Painter Philip de Laszlo (who lately painted President and Mrs. Coolidge), presented to the New York Chamber of Commerce, to hang in company with those of his predecessors-including great Alexander Hamilton, clever Albert Gallatin, honest John Sherman. Mr. Speyer spoke in Manhattan, in behalf of 500 Chambermen subscribers to a Mellon portrait fund...
...will stand unyielding on his own high principles. I had seen him often in his home. It is in a man's home-his real milieu-that he is most himself. The outside world of business cares is far away. In his home I found Mr. Mellon a cultured gentleman, surrounded by the best in art, ancient and modern...
Banker Speyer in continuing his tribute mentioned two items of "indispensable assistance": Mr. Mellon's reduction and reform of income taxes, and the foreign debt settlements. In these matters, the aid Mr. Mellon had had from others and his backing by two presidents, were recognized. Had Banker Speyer thought of it, had the occasion been more appropriate, he might have mentioned another service, of considerable dimensions though of a less tangible nature, that Secretary Mellon has performed in the five years that have elapsed since he left his Pittsburgh home to occupy a spacious and luxurious apartment in Washington...
...renger and the American Commissioners?Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Kellogg, Senator Smoot, Representative Theodore E. Burton and their colleagues?last week signed an agreement in the following terms...
...present week the Presbyterian Laymen's Committee, with onetime (1921-22) Postmaster General Will H. Hays as chairman and Secretary Andrew W. Mellon as treasurer, will be soliciting "as limited a list as possible" for $15,000,000 to put the Presbyterian Ministers' Retirement Plan in operation. The enterprise has the cooperation of many a millionaire, such as Dwight W. Morrow, Alba B. Johnson...