Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Vice President Charles Curtis was 70. The Senate celebrated with speeches. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon gave him a birthday dinner party. The Senate festivities started when New York's Senator Copeland, a physician, predicted that the Vice President was still physically good for many another year of service. South Carolina's Senator Blease hoped he would become President. Alabama's Senator Heflin called the Curtis career an "inspiration to youth" while Indiana's Senator Watson likened him to a "veritable Gibraltar...
...pleasure last week for Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon to drive to the Capitol and recommend, before the House Committee on Executive Expenditures, the transfer of Prohibition enforcement from his department to the Department of Justice. What was painful to him was not the prospect of parting with Prohibition-he had had nine years of it-but the instinctive discomfort of a shy man appearing before a Congressional committee on a controversial question...
Carefully Mr. Mellon sat down in the witness chair, at his elbow Assistant Secretary Lowman, behind him Prohibition Commissioner James Maurice Doran. Before the Committee was the enforcement transfer bill written by Dry Representative William Williamson of Rapid City, S. Dak. (Coolidge 1927 summer resort), homesteader, rural editor, lawyer, title abstractor. Major issue of the transfer is: where to put industrial alcohol control? The Williamson bill weasles this question, provides for joint control by the Treasury and Justice Departments...
...with this arrangement. They quickly discerned a hiatus between the Treasury's arrests and the Department of Justice's prosecutions. Evidence collected by Treasury agents was inept, failed to stand up in court. Little or no cooperation between the departments developed. Complaints began to arise against Secretary Mellon whom the Drys suspected of being, at best, only lukewarm toward Prohibition. A change to the Department of Justice, the Government's enforcing arm for all other Federal criminal statutes (except those of the Post Office Department) was soon suggested...
Next came "Banking, Group and Branch," a 10,000-word survey, without illustrations, of the prime contemporary problem in U. S. finance. To Andrew William Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, this article had been submitted before publication. Of it, beneath the Treasury's seal, he had written: ". . . interesting and comprehensive. . . . It is appropriate that the first issue of this new magazine of business should devote so much space to a study of this important question...