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...company was originated in 1928, when 8,885 shares sold at $100. Before the Break last fall they rose to phenomenal heights, now are nominally quoted at $850. Unlike many a new scheme, Dardelet Threadlock Co. has potent backers. On its directorate among other tycoons are Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Postal and Frank L. Polk of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed. The company operates by giving licenses for the manufacture and distribution of its product. Bethlehem Steel and Federal Screw Works are among the manufacturing licensees...
...Orchestra was to play first, go thence to Zurich, Milan, Turin, Rome, Florence, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Brussels, London. Already houses are sold out all along the way but, regardless, it is estimated that before the tour is over the cost to Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay and other Philharmonic directors will be some...
Died. Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Blake, 50, onetime wife of telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay and of Surgeon Joseph Augustus Blake, mother-in-law of Composer Irving Berlin "Always," "Russian Lullaby"); of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...years he was literary as well as art editor of the New York Tribune (now the Herald Tribune). He likes music (Wagner and Beethoven preferred), collects books, and is addicted to golf, about which he has humorously philosophized in a volume called Nine Holes of Golf. His wife Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz has written on musical subjects, is co-editor of the Library of American Literature. Critic Cortissoz has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Princeton. Columbia, Wesleyan, Union, Amherst, innumerable clubs. He has no official connection with the Metropolitan Museum, but is an honorary fellow of that institution, as well...
...Jeremy Bentham, "of a multitude of heterogeneous scraps of power too various to be enumerated," ruled some months ago that the section of Canada's constitution forbidding women from holding legislative office was a "completely outmoded relic of medieval civilization." Last week the appointment of Mrs. Norman MacKay Wilson, first woman ever to serve in the Canadian Senate, was announced by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and her appointment officially approved by Governor-General Viscount Willingdon...