Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Sunday, besides being the Catholic feast of St. Nereus & Companions, was Mother's Day. In Pittsburgh was dedicated a $4,000,000 church. East Liberty Presbyterian, given by the late Richard Beatty Mellon and his wife Jennie King Mellon in memory of their mothers. Four years abuilding by famed Medievalist Architect Ralph Adams Cram, the Gothic church will seat 1.700, will automatically become the cathedral of Presbyterianism in an already strongly Presbyterian city...
...Banker Mellon's millions were long ago set aside for his church, hence could not be considered evidence of a renewal of the prosperity which set pious folk to building $200.000,000 worth of churches in 1929. But last week religious statisticians reported new money in sight, the first since church building came to a dead stop in 1931. Examples: C. In Trenton Episcopal Bishop Paul Matthews opened the annual New Jersey diocesan convention by breaking ground for a new $1.000,000 Trinity Cathedral. C, New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning, who has found some...
...Andrew Mellon last week dangled a huge sugar plum before the U. S. people as represented by the Board of Tax Appeals which for three months has been hearing the U. S. Government's claim that Mellon owes $3,089,000 on his 1931 income tax. In 1931, Mellon set up "an educational and charitable trust" to which year by year he hands over a number of his valuable old masters...
...Mellon's case is that he proposes to give this, unquestionably one of the world's greatest private collections of old masters, to the U. S. The Government's case is that he has by no means committed himself ever to do any such thing, that the trust actually keeps the Mellon pictures in the Mellon family and that MelIons may go on dangling their sugar plum until doom's crack. The Mellon pictures are now locked securely in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, unseen except by MelIons and friends and, once by subpoena, by Government...
Last week in Washington Mellon's lawyers produced experts to drum home the undoubted fact that the five pictures are valuable. Baron Duveen of Millbank, probably the world's richest art dealer, agreed to the identity of the five pictures...