Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present personnel," Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, had not had a good night's sleep for a week before the Borah blast. It was not the problems of Prohibition that kept him awake, however, but rough seas in the Bahamas whither he had cruised aboard the yacht Vagabondia. Putting in to San Juan, Porto Rico, Secretary Mellon got some rest at a hotel...
...bill to make liquor-buyers as culpable as bootleggers. Senator Harris prepared to renew his demand to double enforcement appropriations, bringing them up to 30 millions per year. Dry Senator Norris of Nebraska entered the general excitement by joining Senator Brookhart of Iowa in a loud demand for Secretary Mellon's resignation...
...greatest Secretary of a Treasury on the Globe is not a male but a female, not Andrew William Mellon, not Philip Snowden, but Mme Vera Yakovleva who last week was appointed Commissar of Finance to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
Whereas Chancellor Snowden is charged with a British budget balancing at only ?741,581,000 ($3,611,499,470), and Secretary Mellon carries on with but $3,643,519,875, the Russian budget in Mme Yakovleva's care balances at the stupendous total of Rubles...
...Pullman-Standard combination was no instance of a powerful, far-reaching giant swallowing up a poor and struggling competitor. Mighty is Pullman, and on its directorate the house of Morgan is well represented. But strong also is Standard Steel, and the house of Mellon is behind its activities. The importance of the Standard-Mellon interest in the consolidation was shown by the fact that J. Frank Drake, President of Standard Steel, will become chairman of Pullman, Inc., the holding company for all the Pullman enterprises, and that Richard K. Mellon will become a Pullman director. In addition to railway...