Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This money, together with $5,000 from the Mellon Foundation's Old Dominion Trust, and a number of private donations, constitutes over half of the Seminar's $60,000 budget for this summer's operation. A drive is now in progress all over the country to obtain the balance from individual donations...
...marked Sparkling Moselle, Champagne, and Marsala, now empty. The wine bottles, like the era, were long since gone. Looking back, that past day now seemed like an era of happy irresponsibility, when no man had to account for his riches-though, like Carnegie, some of the wealthy, e.g., Andrew Mellon, John D. Rockefeller and Julius Rosenwald, had indeed accounted for theirs in handsome gifts to charity, art and education. Ever since the Widow Carnegie died in 1946 (Carnegie himself died in 1919), only a caretaking staff of six had lived in the big place...
...getting scarcer and scarcer. But last week, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology learned that they had not disappeared entirely. Founded in 1900 with a big endowment from Andrew Carnegie, Tech had just received $6,000,000 more from the W. L. (for William Larimer*) and May T. Mellon Foundation. Object: to set up a graduate school of industrial administration, the first of its kind...
...Enforcer. The Al Capone and Waxie Gordon stories will remind readers past their 30s that Prohibition racketeers, large & small, had come to be an accepted part of most U.S. communities. To get Capone became almost an obsession with President Herbert Hoover. Said Hoover to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon: "Remember, now; I want that man Capone in jail...
...Mellon passed the order on to Irey, who planted an agent in Al's Chicago headquarters. He laboriously compiled figures on Capone's tremendous take from his liquor operations, and from shaking down brothels and gambling joints. Al wound up in Alcatraz not because he was a thief, a murderer and a booze runner, but because Irey was able to prove to a jury that he hadn't shared his swag with the U.S. Treasury. One of Al's boys gave Irey's planted agent a classic explanation of Capone's success: "Everything...