Word: mellons
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When the U. S. Government entered suit in a Federal District Court in Manhattan last month asking that the Mellon family's great Aluminum Co. of America be not only perpetually enjoined from monopolistic practices but also that it be dissolved into several independent corporations (TIME, May 3), the nation confidently expected to see a great drama played, on & off stage, by three notable citizens. One was old Andrew William Mellon, who is supposed to dominate Alcoa's affairs. Another was Homer Stille Cummings, an unsuccessful legal opponent of Alcoa long before he became Franklin Roosevelt...
...cynics suspected Messrs. Cummings, Jackson & Co. of personal animus in initiating the Alcoa suit, New Deal partisans now equally wondered whether a "Mellon judge" was cracking back at them. White-haired, erudite Judge Gibson was appointed to the bench by President Harding 16 months after Mr. Mellon became Harding's Secretary of the Treasury. His son-in-law, William H. Eckert, is a member of the law firm of Smith, Buchanan, Scott & Ingersoll, Aluminum Co. attorneys. But in Pittsburgh it is a rare Republican, Presbyterian and substantial citizen who does not have at least one son-in-law connected...
...Mellon "industrial fellowship" has worked extraordinarily well. Last year "donors" gave $816,315. This financed 69 fellowships. Since 1911 almost 4,000 U. S. companies including Aluminum Company of America, Pennsylvania Railroad, Simmons Company (beds), Koppers Gas & Coke Company, Ward Baking Com pany, Cluett, Peabody & Company, Inc. (shirts, collars), Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, have paid the Mellon Institute $11,478,406 for research. Said Director Weidlein last week: "Most of the problems have been solved satisfactorily." Workers have produced 19 books, 143 bulletins, 744 research reports, 1,117 miscellaneous papers as a result of their work...
Last week Mellon fellows were working on subjects ranging from air pollution to textile finishings, shoes to shaving, smoke abatement to cigaret technology...
...research completed just in time for cheering at the dedicatory exercises last week was a new derivative of quinine which relieves pneumonia. While Mr. Mellon listened attentively, Dr. William Watt Graham MacLachlan, physician-in-chief of Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital where the stuff was given to patients last year, reported that the use of hydroxy-ethyl-apocupreine cut his pneumonia death rate in half. Only 27% of his patients died as compared with the 45% Pittsburgh mortality rate. It is given like quinine in capsules by mouth...