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Because Soprano Anna Case declared that she was through singing except for charity when she married Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp., much was made of the fact that fortnight ago, loaded with diamonds, emeralds and orchids, she sang for pay at one of the "Artistic Mornings in Manhattan's Hotel Plaza. Last week it seemed definitely established that the daughter of the South Branch, N. J., blacksmith had "gone back to work"* when her photographs appeared in the lobby of the Roxy cinemansion to advertise that she would sing there this week. But suddenly...
...Clarence Hungerford Mackay denied a report, persistent in his Long Island neighborhood, that he, unable to meet heavy taxes, had deeded his 250-acre Roslyn estate "Harbor Hill" to the Roman Catholic church, which was permitting him to stay on in his house at nominal rent. The estate belongs not to him, is trusteed to his son John...
Because Sir Henry's name is one of the greatest in railroadom, his resignation a great Canadian event, little was said last week of the smaller, quieter man who succeeds him?Samuel James Hungerford ("Sam" to a few friends, "S. J." to most), 60, for nine years vice president in charge of construction, operation and maintenance. His railroad career covers 46 years. It began just one year after Canadian Pacific spanned Canada, when he became a machinist's apprentice on Southeastern Railroad, which was later absorbed by CPR. In 1901 he was sent west from New Brunswick to be locomotive...
...busy to dally in politics in the past, Mr. Hungerford gives the impression of being a man who will stick to the job on hand and command the respect of his employes, although he is far less dashing a character than Sir Henry. The Government last week pledged itself to non interference. Whether or not Mr. Hungerford can increase CNR's traffic, decrease its tremendous deficits, will probably be the final answer to the debatable question : Can any government run a railroad? Yet he may not have time to give an answer. For many a railroadman last week felt that...
...Henry Worth Thornton resigned as president of Canadian National Railways. His duties were taken over by Samuel James Hungerford...