时任美国财政部长的安德鲁·梅林（Andrew Mellen）曾主张将工人、农场主、证券和房地产债务清盘 ， “ 把脓水挤掉 ” 。
Andrew Mellon, the United States Treasury Secretary at the time, talked about liquidating workers, farmers, stocks, and real estate in order “to purge the rottenness out of the system.”