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Mellon

[ mel-uhn ]

noun

  1. Andrew William, 1855–1937, U.S. financier: Secretary of the Treasury 1921–32.


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An unexpected stint at the Ford Foundation while she was teaching at Columbia led to the top job at Mellon.

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The starring villain in Roosevelt’s crackdown on aggressive tax avoidance was the Mellon family, which controlled banks, aluminum production and oil interests.

To be clear, while substantial, CRNY is not Mellon’s only effort to support artists in our current moment.

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Mellon crossed their names out and, with his pencil, ordered their positions reversed.

The library plans up to 67 Mellon-funded internships each year.

Examine photographs of Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, and Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Richard Mellon Scaife—paymaster of the ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’—died July 4.

By 2011, the site was bringing in $1.2 million a month in revenue, according to a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University.

“He would just sit in front of us, staring at us and kind of doing this really slow pant in our face,” Mellon says.

At the same time, Butters proved to have very specific ideas as to where he felt Mellon and Biggs should sit.

The spanner caught him on the shoulder, and he grunted in pain, but he kept on moving away from Mellon.

While Keku put the unconscious Mellon on his bed, Mike let his gaze wander around the room.

Chief Pasteur walked over to where Mellon lay and took his stethoscope out of his little black bag.

Mellon—dying or already dead—had been propped upright in that narrow locker.

His child, aged twelve years, which the troops had captured at Fort Mellon during the fight, now rushed into his arms.

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