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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concerned, Mr. Jones, who arranged it all, was the most important man in town. A Mr. Smith, of course, was the most important man, not in town. William C. Hogg, whom oldtime Houstonians might call their first citizen and whose father was governor of Texas (1891-95), published a letter upbraiding Mr. Jones for "a consistent and calculating career of mendacity which would belittle even Jesse James, who was romantic enough to ride a horse." Mr. Hogg also imputed "stalwart avarice" and "piratical trading" to Mr. Jones, but few took note. They just admired Mr. Jones and decided...
Meanwhile, in Detroit where Packards are made, President Alvan Macauley of the Packard Motor Car Co. wrote a letter to stockholders. He wanted to tell them that Packard is Packard, that it performs with distinction for distinctive individuals, that it will always do so. Wall Street, inspired by the Chrysler-Dodge merger, had been talking about more mergers and Packard had been mentioned. Here is what President Macauley wrote...
...Hearst is a man of orderly disorder. He transacts most of his business by telephone and telegraph. He maintains no personal letter-file. His office is anywhere and everywhere he happens to be. He scribbles on the backs of envelopes, scraps of paper. He is an extremely indolent correspondent. In New York he has half a dozen luxuriantly appointed 'hideouts' to which he may repair when he desires privacy...
Casting about for likely members of the M Club of Cornell University, Walter Clark Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey, hit upon the name of his rich classmate, Hayward Kendall, Cleveland coalman, and wrote him a letter. It is easy to become a member of the M Club-simply agree to contribute $1,000 annually to Cornell University. But Classmate Kendall did not want to join; and he said so in a wide open letter to President Livingston Farrand of Cornell. The letter in part...
This was not a sour grapes letter, for Mr. Kendall as a Cornell undergraduate (class of 1898) was taken into Delta Kappa Epsilon and was managing editor of the Cornell Widow (funny...