Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...causing distress, particularly in Western banks, Senator Glass reminded one & all that such a plan was now under consideration by the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency, warned against public expectation of too great a broadening, assured his listeners that he would vigorously protect the Federal Reserve in Congress. Messrs. Mellon and Mills tried to soothe his apprehension...
...crowd of newshawks and photographers jammed the White House portico. . Secretary Mellon rolled up in his all-aluminum limousine, obligingly doffed a neat bowler to cameramen. Tousled Senator Borah barged through without giving anyone a chance to take his picture. Senator Watson of Indiana, always hearty with newsmen, arrived 20 min. early "to persuade the President to change his mind and give out an official statement at the conclusion of this conference." Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills came early to do the same...
...crisis, watched the enemy flag fluttering across the Potomac at Arlington Heights. Flanked by the Three M's?Governor Eugene Meyer Jr. of the Federal Reserve Board, who was director of War Finance Corp. and to whom hurried calls to the White House were not new, and Secretary Mellon and Undersecretary Mills?President Hoover sat at a small desk. In front of him were 36 comfortable chairs. In the chairs were seated his "little Congress," actually a coalition caucus, since those members of the Opposition were present who could carry out a joint program in Congress if they wanted...
...Mellon...
...studio. One New York gallery offered him $5,000,000 to come to New York and do a series of 300 portraits. Billy Orps turned it down. He had all the portraits he could possibly do right in London at $10,000 apiece. Otto Hermann Kahn, Andrew William Mellon, William Wallace Atterbury are among the U. S. businessmen who traveled to London to be limned by the little Irishman. During the War, British authorities pinned the gold crowns of a major on his shoulders, clapped a tin helmet on his head and sent him to the front to do sketches...