Word: flagler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philharmonic faces predominate on the new board as they do in the band. Type faces on the new board: Harry Harkness Flagler, onetime patron of the Symphony, is president of the new Board of Directors; Walter Damrosch, onetime Symphony batonist, is "guest conductor" under the combine regime. Of the Philharmonic group there are Clarence Hungerford Mackay, who is chairman of the Directors; Mengelberg and Arturo Toscanini, conductors; Sir Thomas Beecham, guest conductor, and Ernest Schelling, conductor of the children's concerts...
...original partners were Stephen V. Harkness, Henry M. Flagler, Samuel Andrews, John D. and William Rockefeller. Later, the following names were conspicuous in Standard Oil: Peter H. Watson, Charles Lockhart, W. G. Warden, Henry H. Rogers, J. J. Vandergrift, Charles Pratt, Daniel O'Day, Oliver H. Payne, John D. Archbold...
...York and at once absorbed the Symphony's directorate. Each orchestra will maintain its separate identity until the end of the present season. Of the new Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, chairman of the Philharmonic Society, will be chairman. President Harry Harkness Flagler, of the Symphony Society, will be president of the merger. The purposes of this musical merger are, of course, the same as that of Mr. Mackay's other merger of the week-economy of operation. Openly declared last week were these specific reasons: "The establishment of an orchestra with a sound...
...cost of the 1926 hurricane. A sumptuous motorcade stood ready to show the President the boulevards, beaches and buildings of Miami and Coral Gables when his train stops there for an hour Saturday. But the President's attention is likely to be occupied not by realty but by the Flagler genius when, reaching Everglade station south of Miami, the train starts out on a long point to a station called Jewfish. There the railway crosses an inlet to Key Largo and begins a unique run, 100 shimmering miles southwest into the Gulf of Mexico, to "America's Gibraltar," "the only...
...Indian Key, Long Key, Grassy Key, Fat Deer, Key Vaca, Pigeon, Knight's, Little Duck, Big Pine Key, Cudjoe, the Saddle-bunch Keys, Big Coppitt, Boca Chica?in less than three hours the train clicks off the distance over bridges, causeways and the lowlying limestone reefs which Henry M. Flagler's engineer, the late Joseph Carroll Meredith, utilized as ties for the Oversea Extension. In places, Gulf currents 30 feet deep swing eastward under the trestles...