Word: mellons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...works of the Flemish school, was also unexcelled in Dutch masterpieces and Spanish and German primitives, trailed only the top-ranking U.S. collections in Renaissance Italians. It also contained a masterwork that would have watered the mouths of such Johnson rivals as the late Andrew Mellon: a postcard-sized St. Francis by van Eyck, whose $500,000 valuation makes it the most expensive painting per square inch...
Then, in 1914, when Bill Bingham was a Junior and the Gold Coast was really fourteen carat, Snowball came to Cambridge and tried his hand at laundry, pressing, and punch-concocting. In those days, the great Club controllers like Chase Mellon, young Barney Baruch, et al, inhabited 6 Holyoke Place (now a parking lot), Claverly, Randolph, and Westmorley. "Then, they went more for the straight stuff with a little ginger alc or soda," reflects the alcoholic expert. "They had pride in holding their own whiskeys. Now that the punch has come in, they start right off with the idea...
...step with the trend SEC had set for utility holding companies, announced it would ask for competitive bids on $90,000,000 of new 2¾% debentures. The three bidders that grabbed for this gold-plated bait: 1) No. 1 proponent of competition, Halsey, Stuart (in association with Mellon Securities); 2) No. 1 opponent (and A.T. & T.'s longtime banker) Morgan Stanley; 3) archenemy of all underwriters, the "private placement" boys, in the person of three big life insurance companies (represented by Mutual Life of New York). The winner: private placement, with...
Only 13 years ago, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon thought 13½% was too steep an income tax for U.S. corporations, got it reduced to 12%. Last week the President signed a tax bill under which many a corporation will pay more than half its 1941 profits in income taxes and none will pay less than...
...Canadian Air Marshal William A. ("Billy") Bishop's son, Arthur, 18, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. // Robert Hopkins, 20, son of Harry Hopkins by his first wife, volunteered for a year's Army service, with the O.K. of both his divorced parents. // Millionaire Private Paul Mellon waived his automatic release as a married man of 34. // Youngest son John Roosevelt graduated from Harvard's Navy Supply School, was assigned to San Diego's Naval Air Station as assistant supply officer. // Captain Elliott Roosevelt was ordered to Kelly Field for a course in aerial navigation...