Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of the Treasury Mellon sails this week, as is his wont, for Europe...
...Pinchot. The program committee had assigned him a safe and sane topic: "Timber Needs of the Future." This he swept aside to launch into a tirade against public utilities, his favorite political theme. He warned the Governors of the political domination of the Power Trust. He named four groups: Mellon-Morgan, Insull, North American, Harris-Forbes. These, he said, generated about 95% of U. S. electricity. He predicted their merger into one colossal combination. Excerpts from a speech which got the biggest applause of any at the conference...
...legal help because in some cases a farmer's creditor has tried to seize his seed loan while it lay on deposit in his bank. Last week the Treasury was astir with plans and proposals for handling a deficit which threatened to repeat itself next year. Secretary Mellon announced an $800,000,000 18-year bond issue at 3⅛%. Its size was the largest, its interest rate the lowest since the War. The purpose of this long-term issue was less to give the Government more operating cash than...
Engaged. Margaret Morton Eustis of Washington, D. C., granddaughter of the late Levi Parsons Morton, Vice President of the U. S. under President Harrison; to David Edward Finley of York. S. C., Special Assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon; at Washington. Her aunt is the wife of Harry Frank Guggenheim, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba...
While the President was thus conferring up in the mountains, his Secretary of the Treasury in Washington broadcast a speech in which he proposed undefined tax changes to meet the deficit. What Secretary Mellon seemed to be arguing for was a broader income tax system to include more citizens ("Some 380,000 individuals now pay 97% of the tax"), and an increase in excise taxes...