Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, Mr. Andrew William Mellon, Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, able capitalist and financier, spoke before his industrial peers of the ultraconservative Union League Club upon international debts...
Fight On. At Washington Senator Smoot of Utah (Republican) launched the Administration's fight for ratification of the U. S.-Italian Debt Settlement, in a speech closely paralleling that made at Philadelphia by Secretary Mellon. He appealed for Senate ratification on the grounds that "Italy is one of our best customers." He scotched any expectation that France will get as lenient terms: "There is no comparison between the two debts, and I want to assure the Senators now personally that no such settlement will ever be made with France as has been made with Italy." Simultaneously with Mr. MelIon...
Whenever the present Secretary of the Treasury departs for a vacation, it is customary to note that he looks "like a tired bookkeeper." This was said last week but with less point than usual. Mr. Andrew W. Mellon looked positively pleased with himself as he boarded the Fort St. George en route to Bermuda with his handsome daughter Ailsa, his Yale undergraduate son Paul. To see them off came "the world's most exalted bachelor," Sir Robert Home (TIME, March 29, COMMONWEALTH), onetime British Chancellor of the Exchequer. Bowing, he presented a bouquet to Miss Mellon; then edged...
...Where is Mr. Andrew Mellon? (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...been identified with capital: Democracy with the working classes. Even this distinction has begun to crumble, however. "The most significant feature of the present Congress," writes the Washington correspondent of the New Republic, "has been the complete breakdown of party lines." The surrender of the Democratic congressmen to Mellon tax-reduction principles indicates that their party has not yet recovered from the disintegrating effect of the Madison Square Garden convention...