Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being "useless as a suspension bridge over the city reservoir." President Gordon is a bibliophile. Some years ago Federal officials seized as "obscene" a set of Rabelais sent him from a European bindery. When Congress passed the amendment admitting recognized classics for private collectors, President Gordon persuaded Secretary Mellon to remove Rabelais from the Treasury Department's blacklist. Lately President Gordon found for his bibliophile friend Boies Penrose, nephew of the late Pennsylvania boss, a post in the history department at St. John...
Among a score of U. S. women who will don long gloves, satin, tri-feathered headdresses to curtsey in stiff social homage to their British Majesties at this year's May Courts: Mrs. David K. E. Bruce (daughter and hostess of Ambassador Mellon); Miss Mary Elizabeth Beebe (daughter of Philadelphia Socialite Lucius Beebe); Mrs. Eugene H. Dooman and Mrs, David Edward Finley (wives of U. S. Embassymen); Miss Winifred Holt Bloodgood (daughter of famed Cancer Researcher Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins University); Miss Denise Livingston (of New York) ; Miss Natica Nast (daughter of Publisher Conde Nast). Because Ailsa Mellon...
...Taylor of Philadelphia and his wife. Only Coventry (England) has a similar chapel reserved for children. The late Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, gave $201,000 to establish the National Cathedral School for Girls. Givers of $100,000 or more include Andrew William Mellon, his brother Richard, the late Ambassador to France Henry White, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the late Percy R. Pyne. Of $50,000 or more: Henry and Edsel Ford, the late Samuel Mather of Cleveland and his half-brother William, John Hays Hammond, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, the late William Amory Gardiner...
...open the "ugly, big, heavy, bare,forbidding red brick factory," Edward of Wales arrived by plane, was announced by a Shakespearean blare of trumpets. He unlocked the doors with a golden key. Mr. Mellon unfurled the Stars & Stripes, H. R. H. the King's flag...
Said Ambassador Mellon: "Shakespeare was great because he tried to do not what was easy but what was difficult in plumbing the depths of human experience and setting forth in his plays and sonnets a conception of life and nature that has impressed itself on all who have come after him. We do well to build a theatre here at Stratford, where all the world can come and, in the beautiful English countryside which brought Shakespeare into being, listen to words that must forever influence the thought and conscience of the world...