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...Harry A. Mackay, mayor of Philadelphia, creature of the beery Republican machine of U. S. Senator-suspect Vare, took some Congressmen for a tour of the Philadelphia Navy Yard last week. On the way he made a speech, saying: "In Washington they have all the dry members of Congress who make the laws and have legislative authority over the District of Columbia. They could mobilize very easily the greatest force of dry agents in the country. They have the highest administrative authority-the President of the United States-and yet Philadelphia is making a far greater effort than Washington...
...baseball season always begins on a cold grey day. Celebrities with stiff fingers and blue noses wish they hadn't promised to throw in the first ball. President Coolidge in a brown fedora, Mayor Walker in spats, Mayor Mackay of Philadelphia in his winter overcoat, tossed in the new white balls and in New York, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, the games began. Mostly the crowds yelled to keep warm, but in Manhattan they had another reason. Before them occurred a dramatic happening...
...only with the merging of great telegraph and telephone systems was Clarence Hungerford Mackay busied last week (see p. 34); the merging of great musical organizations in Manhattan also occupied...
...York Philharmonic Orchestra is the oldest musical organization in the U. S. It was founded in 1842. Only the London Philharmonic, founded in 1813, anteceded it in the world. Mr. Mackay is its chairman, Arturo Toscanini its director, Willem Mengelberg of Amsterdam its joint leader...
...abandon its identity. Therefore, it changed its name to Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York and at once absorbed the Symphony's directorate. Each orchestra will maintain its separate identity until the end of the present season. Of the new Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, chairman of the Philharmonic Society, will be chairman. President Harry Harkness Flagler, of the Symphony Society, will be president of the merger. The purposes of this musical merger are, of course, the same as that of Mr. Mackay's other merger of the week-economy of operation. Openly declared...