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...which heartened the National Labor Relations Board in its legal battle with the Ford Motor Co., The Ru-public Steel Corp., and other companies. In a session in which labor verdicts rivaled in importance the court's decision to review the entire TVA controvery. the highest tribunal found the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company guilty of discriminating against five telegraphers and validated the Roards's order that they must be reiuntated with back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

From this whopping start, George Wingfield went on to become the biggest bigwig in Nevada, Nixon went to the U. S. Senate, and when he died in 1912 Wingfield was appointed to succeed him. He declined the job. Unlike John Mackay, George Hearst, William S. O'Brien, who also made fortunes in Nevada. George Wingfield did not emigrate to another State. Presently he owned twelve banks, a chain of gambling halls, many mines, a string of race horses and two Reno hotels, the Riverside and Golden. Potent in State politics, he became popular by his generosity in grubstaking ranchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: King George | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...earth's end, signs on as the actress's maid, quickly gets into difficulties which result in her hiding in a trunk. Next thing she knows she is aboard a liner which is returning the cinemactress to the U. S. Also aboard is a young detective (Barry Mackay) and a U. S. gangster (Nat Pendleton), both of whom mistake Pat for the thief. The gangster has orders from the Big Fellow in Manhattan to deliver Pat as a willy-nilly ally. No sooner has the boat docked than Pat is hurried away by gangsters, told she must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...after the Conference to golf with other members of the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. Last week Dr. Brown was far less in evidence than such U. S. churchmen as Union's passionate Reinhold Niebuhr or deliberate Henry Sloane Coffin, Princeton Theological Seminary's John Alexander Mackay, Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, President John Raleigh Mott, of the World's Alliance of Y, M. C. A.'s. Nonetheless, Dr. Brown not only raised $70,000 for the expenses of the U. S. delegation ($25,000 for the British delegates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church & State | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

Opera singers have a way of marrying wealthy husbands. Though Ganna Walska married four, she never persuaded a large public that she could sing. When, on the other hand, Mrs. Clarence Mackay sings in public, it is no occasion for sorrow. Though handsome Mrs. Mackay's voice has faded since she ceased being Anna Case, she still uses it with the intelligence that won her honors at the Metropolitan Opera. Last week in Chicago another wealthy woman sang three concerts so brilliantly that she brought her audiences to their feet cheering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Three by Dux | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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