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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Montagu Norman remained in quiet Quebec, kept himself from being seen or heard. If he was conferring with Wall Street bankers, if he was borrowing more money for Britain, no word of it leaked to the Press. In the midst of the excitement, Secretary Andrew W. Mellon of the U. S. Treasury reappeared on the international scene by disembarking from the Conte Biancamano at New York. A flashlight bulb exploded almost in his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Coalition | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...year-old Secretary leaped back quickly, suffered only a slight glass cut on his right hand which Captain Cavallini of the Conte Biancamano swabbed with alcohol and iodine. Secretary Mellon immediately hurried downtown to confer with Governor George Leslie Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Coalition | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...home man than a clubfellow. He lives in Baltimore where the company began, still maintains its home office although it is represented in 191 cities. The directorate over which he presides includes James Bruce, president of Baltimore Trust Co. and brother of David K. Este Bruce, Secretary Mellon's son-in-law; Waddill Catchings; Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes; Banker David R. Forgan of Chicago; Drugman Louis K. Liggett of Boston; Howard LaVerne Wynegar, president of the company. Last week quiet President Wynegar saw no reason why the instalment business should not continue prosperous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mass Credit | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

Georgia sent him to the Senate in 1807 where he served Secretary of the Treasury Gallatin in much the same way as Pennsylvania's Senator Reed today serves Secretary Mellon. Despite charges of corruptly favoring certain banks in the 1819 panic his friends hailed him as "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Million Dollar Certificate | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

Oklahoma's report is fantastic. Not even sleep experimenters at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh have tried bank vaults. Mr. Mellon's comfortable bed in Washington is at his commodious fifth floor apartment, 1785 Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 10, 1931 | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

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