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MELLON. >> I WAS ASKED TO DO IT. I WAS ASKED TO DO IT BY PAUL MELL NEW YORK HIS SON. AND THAT WAS SUPPORT WITH THE ANDREW MELON FOUNDATION. HOW PAUL...
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TO CLAIRE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE AFTER YALE AND AS IT HAPPENS THAT'S WHERE I WENT ABOUT 50 YEARS LATER. SO THERE WERE SOME CONNECTIONS CHLS. >> WHERE DID...
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1810S. AND THEY WERE FARMERS IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AS THEY'D EARLIER BEEN FARMERS IN NORTHERN IRELAND. BUT THE PERSON WHO MADE THE
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MONEY TO BEGIN WITH WAS NOT ANDREW IT WAS ANDREW'S FATHER THOMAS MELLON WHO WAS A VERY REMARKABLE MAN. HE REJECTED THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD OF HIS FORE...
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THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE YOU POSSIBLY COULD. SO HE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM JUST BEING A FARMER. AND BECAUSE THEY
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LIVED IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA THE NEAREST TOWN WAS PITTSBURGH. HE VISITED PITTSBURGH EARLY IN HIS LIFE. RATHER ENTHRALLED BY IT MIGHT SOUND STRANGE...
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IN PITTSBURGH. WAS A BIG FAMILY BUT IT WAS NOT A KIND OF WARM HEARTED LAUGHING AFFECTIONAL --
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AFFECTIONATE FAMILY THEY WERE PRIMM, RATHER STERN. THEY WERE BUTTONED UP AND THE MAIN PURPOSE OF LIFE AS THOMAS MELLON HIMSELF ONCE PUT IT WAS ACQUISITION...
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AND THEN GET ON WITH IT AND AN TRUE'S TWO OLDER BROTHERS WHO SURVIVED
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THOMAS AND JAMES BOTH WENT INTO VARIOUS FORMS OF BUSINESS WHICH THOMAS SENIOR PUT UP THE MONEY FOR. BUT FOR ANDREW AND HIS NEXT BROTHER DICK MELLON,...
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EVEN IF HE'D BEEN POWERFULLY AFFECTED BY RELIGION HE WOULDN'T HAVE
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EVEN TOLD GOD ABOUT IT HE ONLY MARRIES VERY LATE IN LIFE AT THE AGE OF 45. AND UP UNTIL THEN HE'S VERY MUCH FOCUSED ON THE BUSINESS OF BUSINESS BY...
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DOMINANT IN PENNSYLVANIA. PENNSYLVANIA STATE LEGISLATOR WAS OFTEN DESCRIBED AS THE BEST STATE LEGISLATOR MONEY COULD BUY AND IT WAS SUPPOSEDLY
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BOUGHT BY MELLON, BY FRIK BY CARNEGIE AND BY THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY AND OF COURSE FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION. AMERICAN...
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MONEY THAT IT BROUGHT HIM THAT MOST TURNED HIM ON. WHAT HE ACQUIRED A REPUTATION FOR WAS BEING AS A MAN WITH AN ENORMOUSLY DISCERNING JUDGMENT IN SPOTTING...
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WAS IMMENSELY SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES IN WHICH HE BECAME A MAJOR SHAREHOLDER AND AS THE COMPANIES PROSPERED HE PROSPERED. SO THERE'S A WHOLE LIST OF THESE...
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WORLD OF IRON AND STEEL AND COAL OF THE 19TH CENTURY AND I ELECTRON IX.
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GAS -- ELECTRONICS GASOLINE IN THE 20TH CENTURY SO THE MELLON FORTUNE WAS NOT DISPERSED ACROSS AOF THE LOT OF INDUSTRIES WHICH IT WAS IT WAS DISPERSED...
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OF BEING AN IRISH PRESBYTERIAN. THERE'S A FAMOUS STRUGGLE BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOR AT HOMESTEAD
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STEEL MILLS IN 1892 IN PITTSBURGH WHERE FRIK SENDS IN THE TROOPS AND LOTS OF WONGERS ARE -- WORKERS ARE KILLED. THERE WAS THIS IRONY WHAT MADE FRIK...
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HOOVER. SAID IN 1929 WHEN THING WENT WELL HE WAS THE GREATEST SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY SINCE HAMILTON AND IT WAS SAID THREE
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DIFFERENT PRESIDENTS SERVED UNDER HIM. MELLON WAS A BUSINESSMAN'S PRESIDENT. HE BELIEVED THAT YOU COULD RUN THE TREASURY LIKE A BUSINESS. HE THOUGHT...
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THE EARLY YEARS OF THE NEW DEAL IS TO ENCOURAGE HIS ATTORNEY
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GENERAL AND TO URGE THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT TO LAUNCH A SET OF HIGH-PROFILE TAX PROSECUTION CASES FOR PROMINENT REPUBLICANS. MELLON'S ONE, THOMAS ANOTHER,...
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COLLECTION WITH A BIG ENDOWMENT TO CREATE A NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART IN WASHINGTON MODELED ON THE NATION
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GHALAL -- NAP NATIONAL GALLERY IN LONDON MOVERS HIGHER GEAR HE BUYS THINGS HE HASN'T DONE BEFORE AND IN 1930-31 BUYS 21 PICTURES FROM LENINGRAD HE BIAS...
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EXACTLY WHAT HE DID AND THAT'S WHY HE DIDN'T WANT IT CALLED THE MELLON GALLERY BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IF IT WAS CALLED THE MELLON GALLERY NOBODY ELSE WOULD...
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THE GENERATIONS IN THE WAY THE ROCK FELLERS HAVE DONE HERE IN NEW YORK. THERE ARE LOTS OF THEM WHO ARE STILL QUITE RICH BUT THEY ARNOT I THINK IT WOULD...
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HAVE BEEN VERY HELPFUL IN THE WRITING OF THIS BOOK THEY ARE NO LONGER, THEY BEAR A FAMOUS NAME BUT THEYER NOT IN THEIR OWN RIGHT ON THE WHOLE PARTICULARLY...
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