Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover sent to Congress Secretary of the Treasury Mellon's plan for revising German payments to the U.S. for War claims and army occupation costs under the Young Plan, asked that it be approved. Another Hoover request to Congress: An additional $100,000,000 for the Federal Farm Board (see p. 14). ¶ From a window in his office in the State, War & Navy Building President Hoover briefly watched Communists demonstrating before the White House in the name of Unemployment (saw them dragged away by the police). Next day he issued a statement, said that unemployment was decreasing...
...Order of the Square Heads.'1 All fat circus freaks, Big Bill Thompson, and Charles M. Schwab. Probably no more exclusive a field than "Disciples of the Pear Head" in which class you included Andrew Mellon, wear a 7% "polymathic, polyperverse...
...multitudes of laymen. And almost every literate person has heard of Sir Joseph Duveen. He is, however, neither an artist nor a critic, as laymen have been known to wager. He is, of course, the supersalesman and the most famed name in contemporary art. Extensive buyers of art-Andrew Mellon, Jules Semon Bache, John Ringling-are widely recognized as such...
Paul, son of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, stroking the Emmanuel College crew, "bumped" (overtook) four other boats, won the Cambridge Inter-College Regatta on the River...
Briand and Borah; Clémenceau, Chesterton and Clemens; Stresemann and Stimson; Poincare and Pershing; Masaryk, Mussolini, MacDonald and Mellon ?they were all of them to be seen last week in the library of Manhattan's fastidious Pynson Printers, most of them in chalk, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln in lithograph. Had it not been withdrawn for reproduction on the cover of this issue of TIME, the crayon likeness of Charles Evans Hughes would also have appeared...