America 1919-Chapter 393 - 167. Donnie Takes Action (10,000-word chapter, continuing to repay the debt~)_2

Robert Stuart scoffed disparagingly, "Unless Donnie no longer wishes to stay in the United States, he would not be so foolish as to engage in such crazy acts. That would be a gunfight involving hundreds of people. Neither his connections in the Cabinet nor those in the Army would allow such an event to occur."

Even though, during this period, gunfights still occurred in various places across the United States, they were always between gangs, and those involving guns would not include many people. Someone as crazy as Al Capone was, after all, a rarity!

Harry Sinclair rose to his feet and walked over to the room’s liquor cabinet, retrieving a bottle of whisky.

"Gentlemen, I believe we can now celebrate. If there is no move from Donnie’s side within five days, we can conclude that he has decided to back down!"

After saying that, Harry Sinclair, holding the bottle of whisky, came to the door of the room. Upon opening it, a group of scantily clad women entered, laughing and cheering...

Washington, Albert Furr’s residence!

In Albert Furr’s study, there was a conspicuous lion specimen hung on the wall, which was Albert’s pride. During his time in Ohio, he had once gone on a hunting trip to Africa, and this lion was the result of that expedition.

Every visitor to Albert Furr’s office was warmly introduced to the origins of the lion specimen by Albert himself.

At that moment, he had just finished telling Andrew Mellon the story of this very lion specimen.

Andrew Mellon merely nodded politely, not revealing to Albert that he had several such specimens in his own collection.

"Has Donnie called you?"

Sitting on the sofa and pouring himself a glass of brandy, Andrew Mellon then asked Albert Furr.

In Andrew Mellon’s view, Donnie’s acquisition of the rights to drill around the three major oil fields was closely related to Albert Furr. Now that there were problems at the oil wells, and Donnie had refused his own request, the only person Donnie could turn to was Albert Furr!

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Albert Furr was somewhat dissatisfied with Andrew Mellon’s indifference toward his lion trophy, but he knew that despite their apparently equal administrative ranks,

his own relationship with President Harding was even closer than that of Andrew Mellon’s, yet his true status, compared to Andrew Mellon’s, was still insignificant.

In the United States, financial magnates could roughly be divided into two types. One type was the industrialists, led by family magnates like DuPont and Rockefeller, all of whom possessed their own industries.

The other type was typified by financial magnates like the Morgan Consortium on Wall Street, which relied on the freedom of America’s financial system to manipulate the stock prices and financial markets throughout the country.

But there were exceptions to everything.

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The Mellon Consortium, led by Andrew Mellon, was such an exception.

For industry, Andrew Mellon owned Gulf Oil and Aluminum Company of America, and in Philadelphia, he had five large-scale steel companies.

For finance, Andrew Mellon owned the fourth-largest bank in the United States, Mellon Bank—one of the leaders in Wall Street.

Everything he currently owned could be said to have been given by President Harding. If Harding was no longer president one day, then he, too, would no longer serve as a Cabinet Minister.

But Andrew Mellon was different. His status was evident here; no matter who became President of the United States, they needed to be very polite when facing Andrew Mellon.

This was the real grandeur of America’s great families.

One should not assume that in a place like the United States family was not important. In fact, the concept of family in America was even more feudal and powerful than in the East.

Just take the example of that old man who wet his pants in later times—despite being President of the United States, he attended the Kennedy family’s gatherings every year and wasn’t even the most noticed person there.

"No, Donnie has not called me from beginning to end!"

Albert Furr replied with ease.

Regarding the problems Pandora Oil Company was facing, Albert Furr had heard a little, but he had no desire to involve himself in the matter. Even though both Donnie and the four major oil companies were linked to his interests, he still did not intend to step in.

In Albert Furr’s opinion, he had already helped them attain the benefits they desired, so the issue was no longer related to him—and if it wasn’t related, why should he intervene?

Andrew Mellon furrowed his brows slightly, puzzled. If Donnie didn’t seek Albert Furr’s help at such a time, who else could he turn to?

"Perhaps you should ask young Theodore Roosevelt. Donnie and his sister Alice are getting along famously, and it has even reached the point where marriage is being discussed. Maybe it is the Roosevelt family who Donnie has in mind as his first port of call for this matter!"

Albert Furr suggested to Andrew Mellon.

"Donnie is dating Alice from the Roosevelt family?"

Andrew Mellon looked at Albert Furr with surprise, disbelief written across his face.

Albert Furr laughed and said, "At least that’s what young Theodore says. Moreover, Alice is currently working at Donnie’s Starry Entertainment, in charge of this year’s Miss America. I heard that the top favorite, Guli Beckman, was recruited by her!"

Owing to this year’s Miss America competition being larger than last year’s, the preliminaries had also started earlier. The hottest favorite at the moment was Guli Beckman from New York.