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...arguments that British Cables & Wireless, Ltd., was a "menace" (TIME, Jan. 20). Cocky had been Newcomb Carlton's assertions that the "menace" was a "bogy." Because I. T. & T. controls Postal and because a merger with Radio would mean less competition, it was expected that Mr. Mackay would agree with Owen D. Young. This he did, but neither to the deflation of the "menace" nor the inflation of the "bogy." Shrewdly he said: "If there were no British merger we would still wish to coördinate cable and radio. At the same time I thoroughly disagree with those...
Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Postal Telegraph...
Thus divided was the U. S. communication field last week when Clarence Hungerford Mackay, president of Postal Telegraph Co., finished telling the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce what he thought about plans for merging all communication companies into one unit or, failing that, for International Telegraph & Telephone Co. to take over Radio Corp.'s communication business...
Chief of Mr. Mackay's arguments for coördination was that it would raise rate-lowering and service-bettering economy. Although admitting the proposed I. T. & T.-Radio deal would mean more competition against Western Union, he claimed to be so merger-minded that he would rather even see Radio side with Western Union than continued disorder among U. S. communication companies...
...Among them: that he called Vestryman Charles A. Brown "perjurer, liar, moral pervert, trickster;" that he attempted to extort $10,000 from Bishop Mackay-Smith under threat of publishing some of the Bishop's letters to him; that he committed assault and battery on one Anna Phillips; that he charged Parishioner Edward Matlack with being a thief...