Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Often dollar-hostile, the newsorgans of Baron Beaverbrook veered around like weathercocks last week to crow the praises of dollars in general and of newly-arrived Ambassador Andrew William Mellon, dollar Croesus...
...merely blessings but hints were showered upon Ambassador Mellon's hoary head all week, for England hoped that somehow he would influence President Hoover to attempt cancellation of Reparations and War Debts at once. At the welcoming dinner of The Pilgrims, Edward of Wales put the nation's hope thus: "I cannot help feeling that the presence of Mr. Mellon in London can be of the greatest assistance ... for the advice he can give America of European conditions...
Ambassador Mellon, eschewing champagne, had been sipping all through dinner a rare and red French vintage. While he slowly sipped, an iced Statue of Liberty directly in front of him slowly grew soggy, squelched down and had to be carried out. The noble chairman, the Earl of Derby, jocularly observed that this proved the warmth of Mr. Mellon's welcome. Rising to speak at last, Mr. Mellon twirled his glass, recalled that things which twirl too rapidly burst of centrifugal (out-thrusting) force...
Next day Sir John Simon, as Foreign Secretary, escorted Ambassador Mellon to Windsor Castle where he presented his letters of credence to George V, was asked to stay for luncheon...
...wise Londoners anticipated that Mr. Mellon would make the U. S. Embassy at Princes Gate a brighter social centre than it has been for years. His daughter, Mrs. David K. Este Bruce, was to arrive next month to act as his official hostess. With him already was his trusted friend and speechwriter David Edward Finley who after serving as special assistant in the Treasury, had now been made an honorary Secretary of the Embassy. Less than a week after his arrival would come Ambassador Mellon's first trial-by-banquet?the Pilgrim Dinner, with Edward of Wales present to make...