Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settle a $29,900 delinquent tax bill on 40 acres in Brooklawn, N. J., rich Andrew William Mellon, onetime Secretary of the Treasury, offered 50? on the dollar. For a similar bill of $90,000, nearby Belmawr accepted his check...
After contrasting such empire-builders as "Mister Harriman." "Mister Vanderbilt," J. P. Morgan. "Mister Mellon" and Bruce Barton with Trailblazer Meriwether Lewis, Poet MacLeish concludes: You have just beheld the Makers making America: They screwed her scrawny and gaunt with their seven-year panics: They bought her back on their mortgages old-whore-cheap: They fattened their bonds at her breasts till the thin blood ran from them: Men have forgotten how full and clear and deep The Yellowstone moved on the gravel and grass grew When the land lay waiting for her westward people...
...Officially announced last week was the long-rumored purchase of famed Overholt Distillery by National Distillers (TIME, June 12). Founded two years before the War of 1812, Overholt was family-owned until the go's when control passed to Andrew William Mellon and Henry Clay Frick. In 1925 it was acquired by David Albert Schulte, cigarstore tycoon...
Harvard men prominent in other fields of endeavor who wrote are: Gamaliel Bradford '86, Van Wyck Brooks '08, W. R. Castle '00, Simon Flexner '06, W. S. Gifford '05, Walter Hampden '00, Charles Evans Hughes LL.D. '10, Walter Lippmann '10, Kenneth MacGowan '11, Benton Mackaye '00, Andrew W. Mellon hon. '26, Ogden L. Mills '05, D. S. Muzzey '93, General Pershing LL.D. '20, William Lyon Phelps A.M. '91, Owen D. Young LL.D...
...Borne out by the fact that the banking com munity in general and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon originally opposed the capital gains and losses section...