Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restoration of Habsburg properties confiscated during revolution. Last week their plans were well under way. To Otto, as head of the house, will go Habsburg jewels and plate, Habsburg stockholdings, most of which have been made valueless by Depression. But the treasure which is to make him rank with Mellon is Vienna's famed Kunsthistorisches (Art History) Museum, the Louvre of Vienna...
...Tiffany & Co.'s engraving department and from a Portland, Me. photo-engraver. For stay-at-home ornithologists and bird lovers he has made 100 twelve-volume sets of reproductions, each colored by hand. These sets sell for $2,500 each. Among the purchasers are Ogden Reid, Richard Beatty Mellon, Edward Stephen Harkness. Collectors less rich may buy individual prints for $15, a three-volume set of game birds...
...voted against: Mellon Tax Reduction Bill (1924), Tax Cut (1926), Private Operation of Muscle Shoals (1926, 1927), RFC (1932), Sales Tax (1932), AAA (1933), NIRA...
Back from a Scottish vacation, Andrew William Mellon surveyed his Pittsburgh desk, decided: "It will be a 12-hour day for me for the next few weeks...
...geese: 'You wouldn't get the money anyhow if he didn't buy the picture. He is to be praised for bringing that magnificent work of art to his own country, where thousands of young artists will see and be inspired by it.' Mr. Mellon is generous, lending his finest paintings for public exhibition...