Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Harvey O'Connor (Mellon's Millions) offered The Guggenheims, a well-documented unraveling of the complex history of the Guggenheim mining fortune that made U. S. novelists' omission seem even more remarkable. Like the Buddenbrooks and Forsytes, the Guggenheim family began with sober business men, many of whose latest descendants forsook business for the arts, involved complicated family relationships, fierce squabbles. But unlike their counterparts in European fiction, the Guggenheims pictured by Harvey O'Connor have operated on a scale calculated to dazzle the most imaginative novelists...
...restraining the Govern-ment from anti-trust proceedings in Manhattan against Aluminum Co. of America (TIME, May 24 et ante): A Decision by a three-judge "special expediting" panel of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia overruling Judge Gibson, opening the way for trial of Andrew W. Mellon and 42 other Alcoans...
...Seamen's Handbook is published by the American Merchant Marine Library Assn., which also sends magazines and books to men at sea. It is financed by Mrs. Howard, president of the association, and others including Paul D. Cravath, William Mellon, Clark H. Minor, Arthur V. Davis, Dr. Thomas Barbour...
...preferred stockholders for long-suffering is notable, but not in Pittsburgh United. As early as 1931 preferred shareholders in Pittsburgh United were in full cry for liquidation of the company, which would enable them to salvage their own equities while the common stockholders went begging. Led by Richard King Mellon, his sister, Mrs. David K. E. Bruce, and Mellon friends including Aluminum Co. of America's President Roy Arthur Hunt, they brought suit against the company's management. Pittsburgh United's President John Hartwell Hillman Jr., who is also president of an investment company which held...
Pittsburgh ladies liked Modarelli because he was dark and dynamic, as attractively reserved off the platform as he was wild-haired and passionate upon it. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. liked his conducting well enough in 1936 to sponsor the Symphony in a 40-station hookup over NBC. The Mellon family began to take an interest. Andrew Mellon's Son Paul became treasurer. Last May the Board began to lay elaborate plans for a 20-week season with conductors like Walter Damrosch, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Goossens, Carlos Chavez, Georges Enesco. Paul and Andrew Mellon pledged...