Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early as two months ago when George H. ("Pete") Bostwick, on his way to California for a winter of polo, announced that he planned to ride,one of his own horses at Aintree next year. Preparing for this year's Grand National on March 18, Richard King ("Dick") Mellon, affable young vice president of Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh and nephew of Ambassador Andrew William Mellon, last week packed his bags in Manhattan to sail for England on the Bremen. Waiting for him there were his two Grand National entries, Alike and Glangesia. Alike won one of the Grand National...
Cass County & Mellon...
...There are hillbillies in Cass County. Lovable ones, however, and politicians. Rabbits have been cornered in hollow logs in Patman's district. And snuff (between lower lip and teeth, perhaps Levi Garett's, perhaps someones else) is not uncommon. Some of we wage earning Texans view Ambassador Mellon's "Big Business War Et al," not with alarm but with interest. Politically ambitious Texans tread lightly on the subject until after the vote is counted. For, Mr. Mellon is, in part, responsible for the payment of more wages, more taxes and more commissions in Texas than any other...
...Last week William Andrew Mellon attended his last Hoover Cabinet meeting as Secretary of the Treasury. A profuse exchange of kind words followed. Back at the Treasury Mr. Mellon took the oath as Ambassador to Great Britain, cryptically remarking: "This isn't a marriage ceremony. It's a divorce." At the same time Ogden Livingston Mills was sworn in as Secretary of the Treasury. When Ambassador Mellon was handed his commission, he declared: "This is the first time I've received something." Secretary Mills twitted him on his jokes: "Really, you're getting...
...Havemeyer, head of the sugar trust which was dissolved in 1922, he has been National's president since 1900. Under such men the Institute has accomplished its purpose. Marketing of refined sugar has become uniform; $2.000,000 has been spent advertising sugar's food value; researchers are busy at Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh looking for industrial uses...