Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Woodin with a valuable second line of support. Newshawks were captivated by his informality, his thinking-out-loud. To bank depositors everywhere he was depicted as a warm, sympathetic human being slaving nobly in their interest. For the arch-Republican New York Sun George Van Slyke reported: "Under Mellon and Mills the Treasury has been a cold storage plant. . . . The new secretary has been at ease, quite natural and simple, utterly free of official pomp and pose and has made a tremendous hit with everybody." Well aware of how the country was taking him, Secretary Woodin was moved...
Frank Billings Kellogg, his Secretary of State, heard about it at Des Moines on his way to California. Andrew William Mellon, his Secretary of the Treasury, found it hard to believe the news as the S. S. Majestic carried him back to his Ambassadorial post at London. Dwight Filley Davis, his Secretary of War, was at Tallahassee. John Garibaldi Sargent, his Attorney General, was recovering from influenza at his Ludlow, Vt. home. Frank Stearns, his closest personal friend, the man who picked him for President long before the Boston police strike, was so overcome with grief in Boston that...
Died. Samuel Austin Kendall, 73, Representative-reject from Pennsylvania (Republican), good friend of Ambassador Mellon; by his own hand (pistol), in the House Office Building; in Washington, D. C. Reason: loneliness since his wife's death last August. He was the first Congressman suicide on Capitol Hill...
...Hoover . . . unlawfully usurped legislative powers ... a policy inimical to the welfare of the United REPRESENTATIVE MCFADDEN He followed Thaddeus Stevens. States . . . unlawfully dissipated financial resources . . . injured the credit and financial standing ... his declaration of the moratorium has meant sacrifices by the American people. ... He did appoint one Andrew W. Mellon Ambassador while a resolution for the impeachment of the said Mellon was being heard. . . . Treated with contumely the veterans . . . sent a military force heavily armed against homeless, hungry, sick, ragged and defenseless men, women and children and drove them out by force of fire and sword. . . ." When the clerk finished...
...posing grounds behind the White House President Hoover led his Cabinet for its last group photograph. Of its original 1929 members four were missing-War's Good, Treasury's Mellon. Commerce's Lamont, Labor's Davis. The President sat down, hunched up his left shoulder. Vice President Curtis and Secretary of the Treasury Mills swung right leg over left, Secretary of War Hurley, left leg over right. Camera shutters clucked. The Cabinet rarely looked more darkly dignified. Piped a photographer: "Can't you gentlemen please look a little more cheerful this time?" Laughter at such...