Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same day that the Senate approved the Italian debt settlement, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon announced that the American Debt Funding Commission would meet with the French Ambassador, Henry Bérenger, to resume negotiations for settlement of the French debt...
...What this Government needs is a political upheaval to sweep away the dead wood. I do not hesitate to ask my party associates what the Democratic party is here for? To join in these nefarious schemes? To unite with Mellon in all his demands? A few days ago my secretary (Hicklin Yates) defined a Democrat as one who worships at the shrine of Woodrow Wilson and votes with Andrew Mellon. The Republicans at least have a policy?even though it is a buccaneering expedition...
...returning German property held by the Alien Property Custodian to its owners and compensating American claimants against Germany by a U. S. bond issue to be retired out of German reparations payments (TIME, Dec. 21, CABINET). Last week Representative Garner, the Democratic leader, attacked this bill and Secretary Mellon defended it. The New York Herald Tribune (Republican) promptly attacked the bill, saying that the German property should be sold to pay the American claims. It so happens that Mr. Mills is a large minority stockholder in the Herald Tribune.* He wrote a letter explaining his stand. The Herald Tribune promptly...
...administration of the liquor laws should be taken out of the hands of Secretary Mellon, but we can't possibly expect that to be done, unless we have a Democratic congress...
...ounce bottles will cost about 35?. At 50?, drug store clerks in Minneapolis were the first to pass them out. Sale in Manhattan followed several days later. In Indiana, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union became hectic, threatening that "our Congress will impeach General Andrews and even Mr. Mellon." In no state was the President directly attacked...