Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France: The first soccer game played against a German team since the War; at Colombes Stadium, Paris, when a German player inadvertently kicked into his own net the only goal of the day. C. Alike, untouted racehorse owned by Richard K. Mellon (nephew): by five lengths, a four-mile steeplechase at Hurst Park, England, from an impressive field of other entries in next week's Grand National at Aintree...
...program was explained to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon who announced it on the first of the month. Within five days the banks of the country had oversubscribed the Treasury's total offering two and one-half times, such was the soundness of U. S. credit and the surplus of investment funds. The bond issue was fixed at $593,000,000 after prorating it among holders of Treasury notes eager to exchange their short-term securities for long-term obligations. No cash was involved in this bond issue...
...Treasury's next big financing job comes in 1932 and 1933 when the first ($1,930,000,000) and fourth ($6,270,000,000) Liberty bond issues are callable. Already Secretary Mellon has started the machinery for refunding this debt into other bond issues and short-term securities at a lower interest rate. At his request last week Congress passed a bill which upped the maximum offerings under the old Liberty Loan Act from $20,000,000,000 to $28,000,000,000. This eight-billion increase plus a $1,300,000,000 margin left from the War will...
Colombian Petroleum is controlled by Gulf Oil Corp. of Pennsylvania (Mellon-controlled), buyer of a 75% interest for $2,500,000 in 1926. The remaining 25% is held by Carib Syndicate, Ltd., among whose directors are Charles Hayden of Hayden. Stone & Co., Ernest Stauffen Jr. of Marine Midland Corp. The Barco Concession is in the Department of North Santander, 200 miles from the Caribbean...
...imports and lost. The close of the Senate session found him tall and stubborn, battling no less vainly for a resolution whereby a Senate committee would investigate the oil industry. Chief objector to this resolution was Pennsylvania's Senator Reed, good friend of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, whose family controls Gulf Refining Co., which in turn, according to Senator Thomas, fears tariffs, embargoes, investigations. If Senator Reed would not let the oil resolution pass, vengeful Senator Thomas would block everything else...