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Mellon

American  
[mel-uhn] / ˈmɛl ən /

noun

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


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The program owes its existence to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which funded it to the tune of $5 million.

From The Wall Street Journal

In Washington’s Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium Wednesday stood the great and good of the Republican firmament—senators, representatives, governors, cabinet secretaries, the president himself.

From The Wall Street Journal

On Jan. 6, a federal district court in Pennsylvania unsealed a court order in Yael Canaan’s suit against Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bank of New York Mellon’s return on equity has always been outstanding, and certainly underappreciated.

From MarketWatch

Traditional benchmarking systems typically involve asking a model individual questions and evaluating its individual answers, said Graham Neubig, associate professor at the Carnegie Mellon University Language Technology Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal