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  Mills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ogden L. Mills, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Congressman.
Robert L. Mills, US physicist who researched quantum field theory.
Robert Mills (1781 - 1855) South Carolina architect.
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 Ogden L. Mills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ogden Livingston Mills (August 23, 1884–October 11, 1937) was an American businessman and politician.
The son of Ogden and Ruth T. (Livingston) Mills and grandson of Darius O. Mills, who bequeathed to his son a fortune in excess of $40 million amassed in banking, railroad and mining ventures on the Pacific Coast, Odgen Jr.
He was appointed by President Calvin Coolidge Undersecretary of the Treasury to Secretary Andrew W. Mellon and served from 1927 until 1932 when he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by Herbert Hoover upon Mellon's resignation to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ogden_L._Mills   (358 words)

  
 American President
Mills became secretary of treasury when Mellon resigned in February 1932, serving until the end of President Hoover’s term.
A strong advocate of the gold standard, Mills fought for a balanced budget despite the rising problems of unemployment and increasing demands for government spending to alleviate the Depression.
Ogden Mills died in New York City on October 11, 1937.
www.americanpresident.org /history/herberthoover/cabinet/treasury/treasuryCopy1/email.html   (181 words)

  
 U.S. Treasury - Biography of Secretary Ogden L. Mills
Mills served until 1926 as Treasurer of the Republican County Committee of New York.
Mills was elected to the United States Congress in 1921 as a Representative from New York, serving three terms.
He was the son of Ogden and Ruth T. (Livingston) Mills and grandson of Darius O. Mills, who bequeathed to his son a fortune in excess of $40 million amassed in banking, railroad, and mining ventures on the Pacific Coast.
www.ustreas.gov /education/history/secretaries/olmills.html   (461 words)

  
 Secretary of the Treasury - Ogden L. Mills   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As Secretary, Mills continued the policies of his predecessor, recommending a drastic reduction in government spending and a tax increase, in order to balance the budget by 1934.
Mills resigned at the end of Hoover's term in 1933.
Costa painted Ogden L. Mills, Secretary of the Treasury under Hoover, from life in 1933.
www.ustreas.gov /offices/management/curator/collection/secretary/mills.htm   (215 words)

  
 Darius Ogden Mills
Mills resigned the presidency in 1873, leaving the bank with a capital of $5,000.000, large surplus, profitable business, first-rate organization, and unlimited credit.
Mills had resigned his directorship in the bank when retiring from its management, and finally had sold his stock; but Ralston, against his wishes, had continued to have him elected a director, buying enough of Mr.
Mills returned from Europe shortly before the crash, and was first appealed to by William Sharon to save Ralston's personal credit.
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 [CTRL] [3] America’s Sixty Families
Ogden L. Mills and Ogden Mills, the former's father, gave $12,5oo each.
His choice for Secretary of State was Henry L. Stimson, a relic of the Roosevelt-Taft regime and first cousin of two partners of Bonbright and Company, the public-utility arm of J. Morgan and Company.
Mills, gold and silver magnate of the old West, and part owner of the New York Herald Tribune.
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 HV/Net - Hudson Valley Network
Ogden Mill's father, Darius Ogden Mills, established the family fortune in California in the decades following the Gold Rush, by investing in the banks, railroads and other businesses associated with the gold and silver mines of California and Nevada.
Ogden Mills, like his father, became a noted financier and philanthropist, and a director of many charitable institutions.
Active in Republican politics, Ogden L. Mills served as Secretary of the Treasury during the Hoover administration.
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 Hudson Valley home to nation's visionaries
Ogden Livingston Mills, who became U.S. treasury secretary, was born in 1884 in Newport, R. I., to Ogden Mills and Ruth Livingston Mills, owners of a mansion in Staatsburg, now known as Mills Mansion.
A 1907 Harvard Law graduate, Ogden L. Mills became a lawyer and a Republican political leader in New York City.
Mills died in 1937 and is buried at St. James Churchyard in Staatsburg.
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 Hiking Ogden Mills and Ruth Livingston Mills State Historic Site and Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
1882 -- Darius Ogden Mills (1825-1910), later father of Ogden Mills, marries Ruth Livingston Mills, great-granddaughter of the original property owner and daughter of Maturin and Ruth Baylies Livingston.
Mills earned his fortune in banking, railroads and metal mines.
The Millses' daughter, Gladys Mills Phipps, was an avid golfer, skater and horsewoman.
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 Politics, Discrimination and the Washington Quarter - Coin Collecting
Early in 1932, Ogden L. Mills replaced Mellon as Treasury Secretary.
The commissions wrote to Mills urging him to honor the true winner of the competition by ordering the US Mint to produce Mrs.
Ogden Mills refused to contradict Mellon’s ruling, and the John Flanagan design went into production.
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Born 15 AUG 1965 at Ogden, Weber, Utah the son of Larry J. HALES and Laverne BUTTERS.
M- Sydney L. HALES; born APR 1892 in North Carolina and of Sandy Creek Township, Franklin, North Carolina in 1900.
She was born 8 FEB 1908 at Ogden, Weber, Utah the daughter of James GREENWELL and Rose KING.
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 Hoover Named on First Ballot by 837; Lowden Second With 74; Curtis Gets 64; Farmers Squelched on Floor, 807 to 277
Ogden L. Mills and Theodore Roosevelt of the New York delegation, each armed with a noisy rattle, served as cheer leaders.
After thirteen minutes of shouting and rattling and stamping of feet, a parade of State delegation standards was begun, led by Texas and Louisiana.
The Dawes sentiment in the New York delegation was shown to be divided, George K. Morris, Chairman of the State Committee, and Ogden L. Mills, Under-Secretary of the Treasury, favored the nomination of Representative John Q. Tilson of Connecticut.
partners.nytimes.com /library/politics/camp/280615convention-gop-ra.html   (3256 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Mills
Mills, Elden — of Convent, Morris County, N.J. Republican.
Mills, J. — of Redfield, Dallas County, Iowa.
Mills, Joseph — of Warwick, Kent County, R.I. Mayor of Warwick, R.I. Still living as of 1956.
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 SILVER INVESTOR
Ironically, Morgenthau's predecessor as Treasury Secretary was Ogden L. Mills (WMP), whose grandfather, Darius Mills, was a gold and silver mining tycoon in California with timber interests in Nevada and partial ownership of several Comstock Lode silver mines.
Ogden Mills brother in law was Henry Carnegie Phipps (WMP) of the United States Steel fortune.
Mills personal fortune in 1924 was estimated at $48 million, and that of the Phipps family, $600 million ("America's 60 Families," Ferdinand Lundberg, 1937, page 27).
www.silver-investor.com /charlessavoie/cs_july04.htm   (8112 words)

  
 Train Time Line
Formation of Bank of California, headed by Darius Ogden Mills, help from genius William C.Ralston, soon VC branch headed by William Sharon.
Ogden L. Mills becomes sole owner of VandT, picks up annual deficits out of pocket.
March 4, Board of Directors resolution, "Be it therefore resolved that because of the death of the owner of this Railroad, D. Ogden Mills (sic), this road shall cease to operate as a common carrier on a date to be determined."
www.vcnevada.com /history/Train_Time_Line.htm   (973 words)

  
 Protesters arrested at Lockheed missile plant
Police are assigned to each of the principal stock boards to guard against emergencies, but there is no hysteria.
1: Ogden L. Mills of New York has offered to sell the 150-acre Mills Field to the city for $1,000 an acre.
Mills said that the Mills Estate owners had planned to hold the property for industrial development, but changed their minds because of the city's significant investment in the airport.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/10/29/PNGLR9GDBR1.DTL&type=printable   (690 words)

  
 Andrew William Mellon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Despite the downturn in the economy, Mellon continued his policy of balancing the budget by cutting spending and increasing taxes, which worsened the effect of the Depression on the ordinary citizen.
In 1932 Mellon left Treasury to become Ambassador to Great Britain, and he was replaced by Mills.
Philip Alexius de Laszlo was born in Budapest in 1869, the son of an unsuccessful tradesman, and later became a British citizen.
www.omhros.gr /Kat/History/Txt/Ec/MellonAndrew.htm   (906 words)

  
 Reserve Board Finds Action Unnecessary
At 2:30 P. Mellon returned to the Reserve Board meeting, and remained until near its close.
During the day he had conferred with Under-Secretary Ogden L. Mills and Roy A. Young, Governor of the Reserve Board.
After the board adjourned, neither Secretary Mellon nor Young would even intimate the nature or scope of the discussions.
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 Federal Reserve Bulletin: Membership of the Board of Governors of the Fed... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
St. Louis Apr. 4, 1946 Lawrence Clayton Boston Feb. 14, 1947 Thomas B. McCabe Philadelphia Apr. 15, 1948 Edward L. Norton Atlanta Sept. 1, 1950 Oliver S. Powell Minneapolis Sept. 1, 1950 Wm.
New York April 2, 1951 A.L. Mills, Jr.
St. Louis May 21, 1990 Lawrence B. Lindsey Richmond Nov. 26, 1991 Susan M. Phillips Chicago Dec. 2, 1991 Alan S. Blinder Philadelphia June 27, 1994 Janet L. Yellen San Francisco Aug. 12, 1994 Laurence H. Meyer St. Louis June 24, 1996 Alice M. Rivlin Philadelphia June 25, 1996 Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
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 A COUNTRY DEFEATED IN VICTORY
L., 411) as amended by the Act of March 9, 1933, do hereby proclaim, order, direct and declare that all the terms and provisions of said Proclamation of March 6, 1933, and the regulations and orders issued thereunder are hereby continued in full force and effect until further proclamation by the President.
Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary is authorized and directed, as a whole or by subcommittee, to investigate the official conduct of Eugene Meyer, Roy A. Young, Edmund Platt, Eugene R. Black, Adolph Caspar Miller, Charles S. Hamlin, George R. James, Andrew W. Melton, Ozden L. Mills, William H. Woodin.
Walsh, Issac B. Newton, Federal Reserve agents, to determine whether, in the opinion of the said committee, they have been guilty of any high crime or misdemeanor which, in the contemplation of the Constitution, requires the interposition of the constitutional powers of the House.
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 Women's Studies: Archives & Manuscript Collections
The Christodora House Records document the institution from its foundation in 1897 as The Young Womens' Settlement to its activities nearly a century later in support of environmental education for urban youth.
Includes articles on popular figures in current literature and the arts, written while on the staff of Life magazine, and research files and typescripts for her books, Please Touch (1970), A Different Woman (1973), and Families (1978).
She was married to Lincoln Steffens, and after his death, to screenwriter and playwright Donald Ogden Stewart.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eguides/womenstudies/archiv1.html   (6316 words)

  
 SF Bay Area 1920-1975
Part of the initial funding was $700,000 from Elisabeth Mills Reid and her brother Ogden Mills.
Elisabeth was the daughter of Comstock millionaire D.O. Mills and wife of the American diplomat Whitelaw Reid.
1929 Nov 1, It was reported that Ogden L. Mills had offered to sell the 150-acre Mills field to SF for $1,000 an acre.
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 Congressman McFadden's Report to the House
Mills of the Treasury has spoken here of his horror of the printing presses and his horror of dishonest money.
If he had, he would be no party to the present gambling of the Fed in the nefarious open discount market of New York, a market in which the sellers are represented by 10 discount corporations owned and organized by the very banks which own and control the Fed.
Mills is fighting for is the preservation, whole and entire, of the banker's monopoly of all the currency of the United States Government.
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Among the major correspondents are Carl Albert, Abraham D. Beame, Hugh L. Carey, Gerald R. Ford, Edward I. Koch, John V. Lindsay, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Gloria Steinem.
Materials added in 1981 include: draft transcripts of an oral history, appointment books, speeches and subject files (particularly on privacy and freedom of information) all interfiled in the collection and campaign materials press releases and newspaper clippings.
Luellen Cass Teters Bussenius, journalist, author, and clubwoman, was an editor of "The Delineator" in New York and a contributor to many periodicals.
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 Spanish - AMAM
Signed, upper left, with a monogram: B, [E, L,] A, S, C, O
For a more favorable depiction of Jews by van Eyck, see L. Dequeker, "Jewish Symbolism in the Ghent Altarpiece of Jan van Eyck (1432)," Dutch Jewish History: Proceedings of the Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands, November 28-December 3, 1982, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, ed.
If so, it can be traced to the Paris art trade, in 1863, where it was seen in the house of the restorer Haro by the French art critic, W. Bürger (Théophile Thoré).
www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/spanish.html   (2710 words)

  
 The Social Implications of the Roosevelt Administration
A faint voice was heard in the land last week in opposition to President Roosevelt's policies.
It came from Ogden L. Mills wending his lugubrious way to Topeka, Kansas, to tell the free-thinking, hard-hitting farmers of the Middle-West that it were far better for them to starve by strict constitutional methods than to live by a liberalized interpretation of that fundamental document.
With fl band on arm and hat at half mast, he mourned the departed glories of the past.
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 ntlhealins
In no state, however, did the health insurance movement reach the peak attained in New York.
In 1916 and 1917, the "Standard Bill" was introduced by Senator Ogden L. Mills in the New York State Legislature.
l coverage, accessibility, portability between provinces and territories, comprehensive coverage, and non-profit public administration.
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 A brief history of the Chancery of the Embassy of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
T. Morris Murray, a prominent Washington physician, had built the adjacent building based on eighteenth century French architecture style in 1901.
This building over the years was occupied by some of the illustrious families including that of U.S. Senator Peter Gerry (1914-1915), Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills (1928) and the widow of U.S. Senator Chauncey Depew, May Palmer Depew.
It was during her stay, the building came to be known as Depew House.
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 O'Halloran's O'Page www.tpo.net - an ecclectic collection of original poetry, photography and digital art with Irish ...
Secretary of the Treasury: Andrew W. Mellon (1929-32); Ogden L. Mills (1932-33).
Secretary of Commerce: Daniel C. Roper (1933-38); Harry L. Hopkins (1939-40);Jesse H. Jones (1940-45); Henry A. Wallace (1945).
Secretary of the Interior: Harold L. Ickes (1945-46); Julius A. Krug (1946-49); Oscar L. Chapman (1950-53).
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 Articles - San Francisco International Airport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The land was leased from prominent local landowner Ogden L. Mills, and was named Mills Field Municipal Airport.
It remained Mills Field untill 1931 when it was renamed San Francisco Municipal Airport.
Starting in 1935, Pan American World Airways used the facility as the terminal for its "China Clipper" flying boat service across the Pacific Ocean.
www.gaple.com /articles/San_Francisco_International_Airport?mySession=89c6d97437276b951c516a4de59a848a   (1917 words)

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