Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Private Man. If the biggest public man in the inflation fight was Senator Thomas, the biggest private man in the fight was Father Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit. Early in 1932 Father Coughlin (Kawg-lin) having damned Prohibition and likened Andrew Mellon to Judas Iscariot, was getting 80,000 or more letters a week from his listeners. He went to Washington to appeal to the Post Office Department for a special postal substation to handle his mail. While there he too met George LeBlanc and thenceforward his sermons took on a more and more economic tinge until...
...sound-money Democrats like Senators James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and Carter Glass of Virginia to find themselves in the Right-wing bed with an old Republican fogey like Ohio's Fess, the prophet of Harding and Hoover, and Pennsylvania's Reed, the voice of Andrew Mellon. To Senator Lewis, Democratic whip, it must seem most peculiar because it was his unexpected election in 1930 which signaled the return of the Democracy to power, the beginning of a Left shift which was to pass even him. Senator Glass's banking bill of last summer seemed radical indeed...
...Especially I am opposed to capital punishment. No one should be executed--not even Andy Mellon. Killing one man will not deter another from committing murder and obviously will not help the man executed. However, Governor Rolph's plan of turning the guilty men over to the mob is not correct and when he runs for office again he will not have a corporal's guard in his support...
...MELLON'S MILLIONS-Harvey O'Connor...
Died. Richard Beatty Mellon, 75, financier, charitarian, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank, younger brother of Andrew William Mellon; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. Sons of canny old Thomas Mellon, young Richard and young Andrew took a lucrative flyer in lumber, skipped nimbly into their father's bank, which became Mellon National in 1902, today has resources of $236,000,000. They reached for oil, coal, aluminum, railroads, power, glass, made profits and plowed them back, built up an $8,000,000,000 empire. When Brother Andrew became Secretary of the Treasury, Richard took hold of both reins...