Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following a get-together party in the Mellon quadrangle after the panels, a banquet will be held at the Harvard Club of Boston. Associate Dean Stanley F. Teele will make a report to the alumni, and President Conant will be the main speaker of the evening. The President has not announced his topic...
...with Tom O'Flaherty, a big Irishman with "a brisk sense of humor (always a heavy cross for a Communist)," and Fred Ellis, a blue-eyed sign painter from Illinois who did the Worker cartoons when Chambers had an idea (one idea: after Teapot Dome, Andy Mellon as September Morn in a pool...
When Pittsburgh Banker Andrew W. Mellon gave Washington its $15 million art gallery in 1937, he made a condition: it must not bear his name. He suggested it be called simply the National Gallery of Art, and his wish was officially respected.* But four years ago, some of Mellon's Pittsburgh friends decided that he had been anonymous long enough. They raised more than $300,000 and commissioned architects to design a tribute. Last week, on a triangular plot across from the Gallery, a classically simple bronze fountain was dedicated. A nearby bench of granite bears the inscription: "Andrew...
...Though, popularly, Washingtonians refer to it as "the Mellon Gallery...
...another pressing issue, he also took the counteroffensive: "I stand for honest government," he said. He recalled Republican scandals of the 1920s and added that these were "no worse— ;no more immoral- than the tax laws of Andrew Mellon or the attempt to sell Muscle Shoals to private interests...