Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such person as Paul Melon is known to exist. Paul Mellon, mentally active son of the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, stroked the Clare College second boat in successful competition with other Cambridge College boats in an annual event which may properly be described as a regatta but which Cantabs delight to call The Lents...
Opposed to Secretary Davis was Senator Grundy, high tariff advocate, seeking to retain the seat to which Governor Fisher had appointed him after the Vare rejection. Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor, crusading Dry, ran as a rural independent against Mr. Brown for the gubernatorial nomination. The Mellon faction in Pittsburgh supported Messrs. Brown and Grundy. An informal Pinchot-Grundy alliance existed to combat the Vare ticket...
...recommended by his National Law Enforcement Commission when it passed the House bill to transfer Prohibition enforcement from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. After July 1, field agents numbering 2,263 and 153 Washington clerks will find themselves working under Attorney General Mitchell, instead of Secretary Mellon, as Enforcer-in-Chief (TIME...
...Philippines where the country is Wet, Mr. Davis [Secretary of Labor] who in a published book said that the matter of liquor for men who worked in high temperatures ought to be changed. Mr. Lament [Secretary of Commerce] who had been one of the directors of our association, Mr. Mellon [Secretary of the Treasury] who is certainly counted as being against the law, Mr. Brown [Postmaster General] who is wet, and Mr. Adams [Secretary of the Navy] who I think is opposed to the law though of course he doesn't drink...
...campaign, declared: "There never should be any doubt on my stand on the Prohibition question. I don't see how I can decently say that I favor anything other than the law. I'm heartily in accord with President Hoover's views on the subject." Secretary Mellon and Postmaster General Brown refused to comment...