Word: macauley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Others who had promised to appear during the first fortnight of the investigation included: Publisher Paul Block, International Harvester's Alexander Legge, John Francis Hylan, onetime Mayor of New York, Packard's Alvan Macauley, United Mine Workers' John Llewellyn Lewis, Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, Prudential's Edward Dickinson Duffield, Delaware & Hudson's Leonor Fresnel Loree, Statistician Leonard Porter Ayres, Pundit Walter Lippmann, Chase Bank's Winthrop Williams Aldrich, National Farmers' Union's John Andrew Simpson, Anaconda's Cornelius Francis Kelley, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Pennsylvania R. R.'s William Wallace...
...leadership of the 35 companies represented in Manhattan last week (their total capital stock: $1,000,000,000). there had been few changes in 1932. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. still spoke for General Motors; Walter P. Chrysler for Chrysler; Alvan Macauley for Packard (and as president of Automobile Chamber of Commerce, for the Industry) ; Albert Russel Erskine for Studebaker. Henry Ford still spoke for Lincoln: his Ford is not a member of the show. Notable among the changes had been the departure of Roy Dikeman Chapin, to be U. S. Secretary of Commerce, leaving William Joseph Mc-Aneeny active leader...
...Colonel Deeds's estate is one of the show places) is always called "The Cash." In its day it was one of the great business training schools, turning out also Richard Grant of General Motors' Chevrolet Division, President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines, President Alvan Macauley of Packard. But now The Cash and the times have changed. So high-pressure were Founder Patterson's sales methods that today the U. S. market is saturated; 55% of N. C. R.'s business is done abroad where shopkeepers still toss centimes, kopeks, drachmas, kronen into tills...