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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1935
Page
2
A fragment from a page describes W. Mellon entering a bank with notable skill, an aging judge figure, and a hard-bitten Scotch billionaire who values his sons as the family’s future. The era references include the Panic of 1874 and early state and lumber ventures as part of a rising business narrative.
A clipped historical account traces the Mellon banking dynasty from its early ventures through the creation of Mellon National and Union Trust. It explains the lending model that funded ventures, the expansion via holding companies, and the influence of Richard K. Mellon in acquiring control across Pennsylvania banks as a path to industrial growth.
London based Daily Express summary of Berlin dispatch says Hitler will dodge League of Nations talk and press two demands. A strong German navy equal to Russia in the Baltic and a pledge from Britain not to let the Soviet Black Sea fleet pass the Straits of Gibraltar in a hostilities scenario. Sir John Simon hints isolation may be Britain's policy, declining broad commitments to foreign ventures.
Frances Perkins as charter day speaker angered Martha Ijams who refused to host the alumni dinner in San Francisco. Ijams, a leading alumna, urged recognition of achievement in education and science and proposed Mary Ella Woolley as a more fitting speaker for the occasion.
Columbus Ohio Gov. Martin L Davey forecast a nationwide movement to clean up the relief situation as he sensed victory in his fight to end inefficiency and inhuman practices in federal relief. He announced receipt of a telegram from Michigan superintendents of the poor commending his "gallant fight for a square deal" and criticizing what they call Ohio's aid to itself in public relief administration.
A compact profile tracing Andrew W. Mellon's rise from a clerk for coke ovens to a legendary financier. It notes his sponsorship of the aluminum breakthrough, the span of Mellons across oil, construction, and finance, his public role as secretary of the treasury, and the looming transfer of wealth to his heirs as a new generation readies to assume control.
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