Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Counsel Jackson had time that day to question Mr. Mellon on only six of the nine tax-reducing schemes listed. Mr. Mellon admitted that he had used five of them...
Certainly not. Mr. Mellon was simply following the example set by his father, the late Judge Thomas Mellon, who gave almost his entire fortune to his children 25 years before he died. "He thought.'' explained Mr. Mellon, "that if there was a spendthrift in the family, the sooner he went through his fortune the better. . . . He told us he wanted to have the satisfaction during his lifetime of seeing how we could manage affairs...
...Mellon declared he almost refused to become Ambassador to the Court of St. James's because of his desire to see Daughter Ailsa Mellon Bruce well provided for during his lifetime...
...Secretary of the Treasury Mellon had his Commissioner of Internal Revenue David H. Blair prepare a two-page memorandum listing nine smart ways to reduce income tax payments...
...Mellon indignantly denied that he had done any such thing. Grimly the Government's Chief Counsel Robert H. Jackson presented him with the memorandum in question. Mr. Mellon blinked, adjusted his eyeglasses, stared long at the paper as it rattled in his trembly hands. Then he cried eagerly: "It bears no date. How do you know it was prepared during my term? It is merely addressed to the Secretary...