Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climax of a series of Business School inter-dormitory basketball games two faculty teams played a draw with the champion Mellon Hall team last night and a team made, up from the losing dormitories. Each faculty team played for one half of the usual time, each period ending in a 14 to 14 draw...
Treasury?Andrew William Mellon of Pennsylvania...
...main street of Homer, Ill., one night last week War veterans burned a stuffed figure. On it hung the label: ANDY MELLON. That was what Homer's ex-soldiery thought of a Secretary of the Treasury who had dared oppose legislation in Congress to up their Bonus loans...
Simultaneously in Washington President Hoover was receiving from a Congress afire with hostility and defiance H. R. 17054, a bill to increase the loan value of veterans' adjusted service certificates from 22½% to 50% (TIME, Feb. 23). On the advice of the same Homer-incinerated Andy Mellon, he prepared to return it unapproved to Congress with a full explanation of his veto reasons...
...high point of bonus opposition came in a speech by Pennsylvania's slight, drawn-faced Republican Senator David Aiken Reed, A. E. F. Major of Artillery, family friend of Andrew Mellon and fellow-Pittsburgher. With shoulders humped, intense voice rasping, Senator Reed hammered away. But as he expected, his words changed not a single ballot. By the impressive vote of 72-10-12 the Senate passed H. R. 17054. Not one Democrat voted against it. The twelve anti-Bonus Republicans were: Borah, Fess, Goff, Hastings, Hebert, Metcalf, Morrow, Moses, Phipps, Reed, Smoot, Walcott...