Word: macauley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...position of Packard in the fine car field is largely the work of Alvan Macauley. He began as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. A good friend, Edward Rector,* recommended him to the National Cash Register Co. as a patent attorney. There, he soon turned himself into an inventor and engineer. Later, he went to the American Arithmometer Co. and turned it into the potent Burroughs Adding Machine Co. In 1910, when Packard was making four-cylinder cars, 2,000 a year, Mr. Macauley became general manager. James Ward
...study of European cars, retired from the business in 1915. He died three months ago (TIME, Apr. 2), beloved by his neighbors in Warren, Ohio, to whom he left $100,000 for a town library. Last year some 35,000 six-and eight-cylinder Packards were sold and Mr. Macauley said: "We keep only those men who, we believe, are personally interested in the work itself...
Elected. Alvan Macauley, president of Packard Motor Car Co., to be president of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce; succeeding Roy D. Chapin (Hudson Motor Co.). Financial gossips and newsmen, who had failed to anticipate the Chrysler-Dodge merger, talked last week about Packard's near-future alliance with Hupp, Hudson-Essex or Nash. They knew that Alvan Macauley had left for Manhattan (from Detroit), had gone into "secret" conference with motormen. Actually the "secret" conference was the regular meeting of the Automobile Chamber of Commerce. "We will continue alone," said Alvan Macauley and took train for Detroit...
...Cummings '30, running for the B. A. A. came in third in the 400-metre run, while MacAuley Smith, the old Yale Intercollegiate cross country champion, now a student in the Law School, representing the B. A. A. had little opposition in taking the 500-metre, run in 15 minutes 29 4-5 seconds...