Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reporters last week could find nothing to connect 7 5-year-old Andrew William Mellon, whose daughter bears the name of Ailsa, with the 83-year-old owner of St. Kilda, but found much to connect Lord Ailsa with the U. S. The Marquess of Ailsa, whose title comes from Ailsa Craig, a precipitous rock at the mouth of the Firth of Clyde, is a direct descendant of a Captain Archibald Kennedy, R. N., who inherited an estate near Hoboken, N. J. in 1763, married into New York's Schuyler and Van Rensselaer families, was said to own "more...
...forecast, on the eve of a close campaign to control Congress, seriously alarmed President Hoover. Last year's 1% cut was not large financially but it was enormous politically. Failing to continue it this year would seem like raising taxes. The President summoned Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to a White House conference, afterward declared...
Added Secretary Mellon: ". . . While no one could definitely promise that the 1% tax reduction can be maintained, I have a very real hope we may be able to make such a recommendation in December" [after the election...
...Litchfield, Conn., Mrs. Nora Mary McMullen Lee, onetime (1900-12) wife of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew-William Mellon, said she would not remarry but for convenience would again be known as Mrs. Mellon. "Now that Mr. Lee is no longer here," said she, ''there seems no reason for continuing the name. And, too, my son [Paul Mellon] is very anxious that I should take his name...
...Cabinet, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, forewent his customary trip to Europe this summer. Last spring he took a Caribbean cruise. His holiday now will consist only of frequent Friday-to-Tuesday trips to his and his brother's Rolling Rock demesne near Pittsburgh, to watch and instruct his only son Paul, literarily inclined but learning the banking business...