Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ears, the President next appointed a special Cabinet Commission to "formulate . . . plans continuing and strengthening the organization of Federal activities for employment during the winter." Its members: Secretary of Commerce Lamont (chairman), Secretary of Labor Davis, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, Secretary of War Hurley, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Federal Reserve Board Governor Meyer...
Nominee Pinchot was comforted by the knowledge that he had the wholehearted support of the Pittsburgh Mellons. William Larimer Mellon, nephew of the Secretary of the Treasury, announced that there would be no Republican bolting in that family...
...business men have been referred to as "magnets", making Andrew Mellon an aluminum magnet. Boswell was Samuel Johnson's "iodizer", Chicago politics have fallen into the hands of the "rum-running racquet." Then there is the yearly appearance of the "illustrated man", while a self description has been titled "An Autobiological Sketch...
...timid or ambitious. . . . It would cheapen the memory of a man, most deserving, to importune anybody to do his memory a simple justice."* The association re-elected its officers: Calvin Coolidge, honorary president; one-time Senator Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, president; Secretary of Treasury Andrew William Mellon, treasurer...
...Congress: He is known as an independent voter, a violent partisan, a dogged fighter, the Senate's wealthiest member. He is most famed for his fiscal feud with Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. He did not like the 1924 tax bill, wrote the Secretary so, was infuriated by a snippy reply from a Department subordinate. He put through the Senate a resolution to investigate the Bureau of Internal Revenue. This Bureau retaliated by reopening an old tax case against him and all minority Ford stockholders who had sold their shares. The Bureau charged the Senator owed...