Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laidler opened his speech with a description of the vast extent of monopoly in certain fields. According to figures given by him, the United States Steel Corporation controls one half to two-thirds of the iron ore of the country, the Mellon family controls 90 per cent of the aluminum ore, and that seven-eighths of the chewing-gum in the United States is manufactured by Wrigley. He also said that one per cent of the banks of the country control more capital than the other 99 per cent combined...
Born, To Ailsa Mellon Bruce, only daughter of Andrew William Mellon, and David Kilpatrick Este Bruce, son of Maryland's onetime U. S. Senator William Cabell Bruce, whom she married in 1926; their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan...
...Mellon & Eagles. After Jesse Jones high-pressured a big Chicago and a big Manhattan bank into winning their double blue eagles by selling capital notes and preferred stock to the R. F. C., he hoped he would have plain sailing with the rest of the U. S. banks which had no need for more capital (TIME, Oct. 23 ). But though he has sold his idea to bank officials throughout the land, he has learned that stockholders are not yet enthusiastic. And last week Mr. Jones met the first flat refusal from a clearing house association. The Pittsburgh Clearing House held...
Andrew William Mellon was the Cabinet hero of the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover era William Hartman Woodin, cheery but inactive, has not yet qualified for a similar role in the Roosevelt era. Nor have the new heads of the State, Justice, War, Navy Agriculture, Commerce or Interior departments yet achieved historic stature. The first woman Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins (Wilson) has been receiving quiet plaudits ever since her first hour in office as the most human, humane and intelligent incumbent since her post was founded in 1913. But the first phrase of praise with resonance for the ages was bestowed...
...well known. It was discovered in Spain by the Russian Ambassador Dmitri Pavlovitch Tatischev, was bequeathed by him to Tsar Nicholas I, who placed it in the Hermitage Museum in 1845. The same agent, President Charles R. Henschel of Knoedler & Co. who acquired the "Annunciation," reputedly for Andrew Mellon, finally after years of secret conferences in London, Paris, Berlin closed the Metropolitan's diptych deal. What he paid neither the Metropolitan, Knoedler & Co. nor the Soviet Government would say. Three hundred years ago the acquisition of such treasure would have been just cause for a three-day civic celebration...