Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bliss C-13 D Entry--F. Cramer D-34 E Entry--J. L. Wolcott E-31 F Entry--R. C. Fleck F-11 McKINLOCK A Entry--L. A. Francisco A-12 B Entry--F. A. Pickard B-22 C Entry--McCormick D-51 D Entry--E. Pope D-51 MELLON A Entry--E. W. Sexton A-24 B Entry--H. L. Hartman B-35 C Entry--D. P. Farris C-22 D Entry--R. A. Scott D-34 68 MT. AUBURN STREET Whole house--Arthur Armstrong 52 MT. AUBURN STREET R. C. Champollion. MORRIS HALL A Entry--C. D. Smith...
...door opening on nothing last week involved John Pierpont Morgan in a record damage suit in Manhattan. A hammer dropping from loose fingers last week involved Andrew William Mellon in a record damage suit in Pittsburgh. Observers wondered whether damage suits are not greatly conditioned by the fame and fortune of the defendants...
...year ago a carpenter at work on the Pittsburgher Hotel, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and his brother Richard Beatty Mellon, dropped a hammer. It fell through a large plate-glass window in the Frick Building next door. Flying glass cut a 23-inch gash, severed a vertebra, in the back of Mary Hahn, 23, cigar vendor. Last week, after the Mellon lawyers had admitted liability, an Allegheny county jury awarded Miss Hahn $102,427 in damages. The Mellons, through counsel, protested the verdict was excessive, appealed for a new trial...
...week closed he turned spitefully on the Vare machine, charged it with saddling Philadelphia with a huge debt, with "feeding at the public trough." His charges were reminiscent of those that George Wharton Pepper, Mellon senatorial candidate, made in vain against Mr. Vare four years ago. Always quick with a retort, Varemen accused Grundy of helping to "unload" on Pennsylvania some land at Valley Forge under the false pretense that it was George Washington's camping ground...
Political observers last week seemed generally agreed upon these Pennsylvania points: 1) The Mellon influence will from now on dimmish in Pennsylvania politics; 2) Senator Grundy, with no ticket-mate, will be badly beaten by Secretary Davis; unless 3) with Mr. Pinchot contending formidably for the nomination for Governor against Mr. Brown, a Vare-Mellon deal has to be made, with Secretary Davis dropped as the price of electing Brown; 4) William Scott Vare remains more of a political power in Pennsylvania today than he ever was before the Senate rejected him, by simply waiting until the other element...