Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister of "China's Strongest War Lord," Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria. Other Soongs are the widow 'of Sainted Sun Yatsen, the wife of China's president, the wife of the last lineal descendant of Confucius, and Finance Minister T. V. Soong, "China's Mellon...
...Seymour Parker Gilbert was made Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under William Gibbs McAdoo. Later he served under Carter Glass, then under David Franklin Houston. When Secretary Mellon was appointed he promoted Mr. Gilbert, for skill and industry, from a $5,000-a-year Assistant Secretaryship to the $10,000-a-year Under Secretaryship. In 1923 Mr. Gilbert resigned to re-enter law, but a few months later was called upon to succeed Owen D. Young as Reparations Agent General. He is shy, no socialite. In 1924 he was married. He likes...
...Secretary Mellon's December offerings of $150,000,000 and $250,000,000 in short-term Government bonds at 1?% and 1&frac28;% respectively were oversubscribed 3-to-1 last week...
...very cheap money has become in the U. S. was demonstrated last week by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon in announcing what interest rates the U. S. would pay on its mid-December borrowings. On a $150,000,000 issue of six-month Treasury certificates, Secretary Mellon offered only 1¼%-an all-time record low. On a twelve-month issue of the same kind for $250,000,000 the rate will be 1⅞%. The last similar issues carried 2⅜% and 2⅞% rates. At the height of the speculative boom in 1929 the Treasury...
Within three years some seven billion dollars worth of Liberty Loans at rates as high as 4½% will become callable. Secretary Mellon in his annual report hinted at a major long-term refinancing operation at lower interest rates when he asked Congress to amend the Liberty-Loan Act so as to authorize him to issue eight billions in new bonds...