Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great advocate of The Home during the campaign, President Hoover has surprised nobody by the fewness of his appointments of women to public offices. But lately he put aside his feeling against women as officeholders long enough to listen to arguments by his Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon in behalf of Miss Annabel Matthews of Gainesville, Ga. The arguments seemed so irresistible that President Hoover last week appointed Miss Matthews to the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals ($10,000 per year), the first woman ever named to this potent buffer agency between the Treasury and the taxpayer...
...From nine of her War debtors the U. S. one day last week received a semi-annual installment of $98,657,973. Two days later the President signed the Mellon-Berenger agreement by which a tenth debtor, France, will pay $6,847,674,104 in 62 years...
...Milwaukee one Wellington Lytle, suicide, willed that ''my body should go to science, my soul to Andrew W. Mellon, and sympathy to my creditors...
...Hoover and Mellon sent a chair to Coolidge the other day. The former President, being a man of very few words, won't thank them until they have sent two beds, a table, a rocker and some kitchen utensils." On the stage, Eddie Cantor's props- comparable to Will Rogers' gum and spinning ropes-are blackface makeup and white-rimmed spectacles. He accentuates his lines with eye-googling and eccentric prancing. When he wrote his first book a year and a half ago (My Life Is in Your Hands, autobiography), he required the aid of a ghostwriter...
About the Senate flew reports that Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania would appoint arch-lobbyist Joseph R. Grundy to the empty seat. Warned Senator Nye of North Dakota: "I give notice here and now that the appointee of Governor Fisher will need be one far removed from the Mellon-Grundy-Fisher machine before I shall vote for him to be seated. We cannot damn one ill-smelling Pennsylvania machine without damning the other...