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Their lust for business last week befuddled the much badgered Federal Radio Commission. Two of the companies-the I. T. & T. (through its subsidiary Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co.) and R. C. A. demanded the right to set up wireless telegraph stations and sell service between cities in continental...
Died. Mrs. Marie Hungerford Mackay, 85, "the untitled Duchess," relict of John W. Mackay (Croesus of mines & cables), mother of Clarence H. Mackay (president of Postal Telegraph Co.); of heart disease in Roslyn, L. I., N. W. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., the daughter of Civil and Mexican war veteran Col. Daniel C. Hungerford and his onetime Parisian wife, it was she who in the early '60s braved a squalid, vulgar Nevada mining town with her first husband, one Dr. Bryant. After his death she kept a boarding house in the mining camps. To her table came John...
...lifelong gifts to charity were noteworthy, including $300,000 which she gave with Clarence W. Mackay to the University of Nevada. One of the three grandchildren present at her dea.th was Mrs. Irving Berlin (Ellin Mackay), whose marriage to the Tin Pan alley tycoon led to an estrangement from her father...
...ejaculations of surprise that rich, stern-hearted Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver has at length decided to aid in a peculiar manner the penniless widow and son of one Captain Walter Hinchliffe, who was lost while attempting to fly the Atlantic with Lord Inchcape's daughter, the Hon. Elsie Mackay. Unwilling to aid Widow Hinchliffe directly, Viscount Inchcape placed ?10,000 ($48,700) at the disposal and "absolute discretion" of Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, last week, with the request he administer it in such manner as to alleviate "any complaint by other sufferers from the disaster." Widow & Child...
Telegrapher Mackay, Banker Sabin, Wales-host Burden and Piggly Wiggly Corporation Maury departed on the Majestic...