Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret court"-was holding things up, waiting for the King to put the "golden seal" on the right papers. Two decades ago, Woodrow Wilson was reported to have been driven insane by the threat of shattering international disclosures concerning the Drake Estate. Later the story was that Messrs. Hoover, Mellon and Mills, "representing the Interests," were keeping the Drake money out of the country. Recently, Drake Estate agents have passed the word along that just as they got the Hoover Administration soaped up to let the fortune through, Franklin Roosevelt and his Democrats popped into power...
Pittsburgh. The Mellon Institute is a nose-to-the-grindstone organization which pays its own way. A manufacturer stumped by a technical problem may turn it over to the Institute by buying a fellowship for a minimum of about $10,000 of which some 20% goes to the Institute for overhead, the rest to the researcher for salary and equipment. Most but not all of the Institute's output is highly specialized of interest mainly to the client it benefits' Sodium metaphosphate was for a century considered a chemical curiosity. Then an expert on boiler waters discovered...
...Some "big" presbyterians: Steelmaster Eugene Gifford Grace; Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson: Senator James Couzens; Lumberman Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser; Will H. Hays; Andrew William Mellon...
Once again, Mr. Strachey here posits the classic thesis of the inevitability of the class struggle. Scanning the political horizon he sees only the lifted arm of Mussolini and the lifted eyebrows of Andy Mellon. He refuses absolutely to admit that our capitalist system is capable of amelioration through peaceful self-regulation...
...Baush first filed suit against the Mellon company in 1928. That suit was dismissed. Three years later Baush marched into court with a bill of particulars, accusing Aluminum Co. of nearly every unfair business practice imaginable. Baush asked $3,000,000 in damages, $6,000,000 punitive penalties under the Anti-Trust laws. After a three-month trial, a New Haven jury gave Aluminum the verdict. On appeal Baush won a retrial...