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...conferred one day with the manufacturers headed by Alfred P. Sloan. Alvan Macauley, Walter P. Chrysler. Charles W. Nash, Roy D. Chapin. Next day he conferred with A. F. of L. men led by President William Green and William Collins, organizer for the industry. Then for three days General Johnson shuttled from one group to the other trying to arrange a settlement. At the end of the first day General Johnson held up his thumb and forefinger with only a hypothetical peanut between and reported, ''They are just that far apart." At the end of the second...
...Alvan Macauley (Packard Motor...
...breaks (made with a 20-gauge gun) ; Ed Sransky of New Jersey, who broke the first straight 25 with a .410 bore (smallest) shotgun; the Waltham (Mass.) Gun Club, which holds the world's team record of 486 breaks out of 500 targets. Some famed skeet enthusiasts: President Alvan-Macauley of Packard Motor Car Co., Publisher Orson Desaix Munn of Scientific American, Major-General Hanson Edward Ely, Financier James Alexander Stillman, Brigadier-General William Mitchell, Bernt Balchen, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, John Barrymore...
...Alvan Macauley, president of Packard Motor Car Co., was in Manhattan last week, wanted to go home. The weather was stifling. He called up American Airways which had lately opened New York-Chicago service via Detroit with 15-passenger Curtiss Condors. What was that? . . . All space taken. Why, that couldn't be possible; well, how about tomorrow? . .. Sorry, all booked up for four days ahead. . . . What? Well, let me know if somebody cancels his reservation. What's that? . . . Sorry, Mr. Macauley, we have a waiting list of 30 already. . . . Disgruntled, Mr. Macauley took the train. ¶ With seven...
...Walter P. Chrysler arrived from New York. Henry and Edsel Ford conferred with the officers of the Union Guardian Trust. Jovial Scotsman Alex Dow of Detroit Edison. Alvan Macauley of Packard. Burch Foraker of Michigan Bell Telephone, William Gordon Woolfolk of Detroit City Gas. Frederic and William A. Fisher (bodies), Dubois Young of Hupmobile, Charles T. Van Dusen of S. S. Kresge-the leading citizens of Detroit- Newberrys, McMillans. Algers-all were drawn into the conferences...