Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mellow firelight flickered about the office of the Secretary of the Treasury one morning last week, dappling its black leather arm chairs, glinting on the glass doors of its bookcases and softening the chill rain that fell outside. Behind his broad mahogany desk sat Andrew William Mellon, his thin patrician face a mask to his own reflections. Around the big room were scattered Treasury newshawks attending what would probably be their last press conference with this shy little man puffing meditatively on a black cigar no bigger than a cigaret. His career as Secretary of the Treasury was over; President...
...reported, had declined promotion to this No. 1 diplomatic post because Mrs. Edge preferred Paris to London. Mr. Dawes. it was said, wanted to see his good old friend Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois given the job but somewhere a hitch had occurred. So President Hoover turned to Mr. Mellon, gently pushed his 76-year-old Secretary of the Treasury upstairs into the foreign service. How did Mr. Mellon feel about it? asked a correspondent...
Mills for Mellon. Day after Mr. Mellon was named Ambassador to Britain, able Undersecretary Ogden Livingston Mills was, as everyone expected, appointed by President Hoover to succeed him as head of the Treasury. Mr. Mills's nomination was merely White House recognition of the fact that for the past year or so he has been practically running the Treasury over Mr. Mellon's frail shoulder. Between Mr. Mellon and Mr. Mills, 29 years his junior, there was almost a father-and-son relationship which culminated in last week's inheritance of office. Mr. Mills affectionately called his superior...
...With Mr. Mellon as Ambassador the necessary connection between Wall Street and Threadneedle Street is better established...
...selection of Ogden Mills to succeed Mr. Mellon as Secretary will meet general applause. Probably few secretaries in this century have had more years of service in the Treasury before becoming head of it. His share in the arrangement of the Hoover Moratorium is well-known. As Secretary, he will take over officially a position the duties and requirements of which he thoroughly understands...