Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ostensible purpose of the Board of Tax Appeals hearings which began last week in a courtroom of Pittsburgh's new Federal Building was to determine whether Andrew William Mellon owed the Government $3,075,103 in back income taxes & penalty, or whether the Government owed the onetime (1921-32) Secretary of the Treasury a $139,045 refund. But in effect it was a trial of two great reputations at the bar of public opinion. One reputation seemed bound to emerge incalculably damaged. Mr. Mellon, as an Old Deal statesman, stood to be convicted of a deliberate, contemptible attempt...
Then there is the chap who, like so many of these dangerous foreigners, hails from Pittsburgh. His Koppers Construction Company has taught the Soviets how to build coke ovens. His name is Andrew Mellon...
...Duke of St. Albans, who in 1827 unnerved George IV by marrying Harriet Mellon...
...long-ago times the Republican party used to run this country of ours. That fact may seem incredible to the postlandslide generation, yet some items in yesterday's news reminded oldsters of the days of their youth, arousing in many a faint touch of nostalgia. Herbert Hoover and Andy Mellon, the one demanding restoration of the gold standard (O ruined relic of a bygone time!) and the other defending himself in an income-tax suit (Thus low have the great fallen!), have again been granted space in the newspapers. Smiling wistfully, yet for all their misfortune looking well-washed...
...figure--exactly $97,603,005.49 as of December 31, 1931, after the stock market crash of 1929 which sent many millionaires into near-poverty--was calmly disclosed by Mellon's confidential secretary as he testified at the hearing by which the Federal Government seeks to collect an additional $3,000,000 on Mellon's 1931 income...