Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To William Larimer Mellon Jr., grandnephew of the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; and Grace Rowley Mellon; a son; in Pittsburgh...
...article under the heading National Affairs, in that article, repeats a few words of praise I said for Senator Jim Davis, those words for Davis were from the heart, and were as honest as the words of how dumb the Republican Organization is for allowing the Herbert Hoover, Andy Mellon and Dave Reed wing of the party for ruining it, of course why mention the running of the party, they are doing as good a job with the entire country...
...country's richest men. Among those who broke bread with the Master of the Hall that night were Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank A. Seiberling, William Kissam Vanderbilt, Sebastian Spering Kresge, Byron D. Miller (Woolworth), William Wallace Atterbury, Daniel Willard, Henry Latham Doherty, Joseph and Robert Graham, William Larimer Mellon, Col. Edward Howland Robinson Green (son of the late Hetty Green), Charles and William Fisher, Albert Russell Erskine, Frank Ernest Gannett, Bernard Gimbel, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis...
...Knoedler, 76, retired art dealer; of lung congestion; in Paris. Born in New York, he made Knoedler & Co., his father's firm, one of the three most important (with Duveen Bros, and Durand-Ruel) in the U. S. He helped build the art collections of Andrew William Mellon, the late Peter A. B. Widener, William Kissam Vanderbilt, the late George Fisher Baker, Potter Palmer...
Wire for Oil. News leaked out last week that Aluminum Co. of Canada, sector of the Mellon Empire, had sold $1,000,000 worth of aluminum wire to Russia, will take crude oil in payment (some reports said half the payment would be cash). The oil received in the deal, which Aluminum Co. called a barter "in effect but not literally," will be sold to Montreal's La Salle Petroleum Refinery, Ltd. (incorporated only last May), refined and placed on the Canadian market. Canada's oilmen spoke of "disturbing effects," pointed out that Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corp...