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After gold and silver were discovered in California, Telegraph Tycoon J.W. Mackay brought in three tons of silver from the Comstock lode and had Tiffany's make it into 1,000 pieces of table silver. One day President Lincoln dropped in to pick up a strand of pearls for the First Lady. Diamond Jim Brady earned his nickname with Tiffany diamonds, and an admirer of Sarah Bernhardt ordered for her a bicycle set with diamonds and rubies. Tiffany's even made horseshoes for the thoroughbreds of Tobacco Millionaire P. Lorillard. Steelmaker Charles Schwab once strolled into Tiffany...
...Vice President Richard M. Nixon, goodwill-building in Latin America, paid tribute to the Roman Catholic Church as "one of the major bulwarks against Communism and totalitarian ideas." In Ottawa the Rev. Dr. John A. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary and of the World Presbyterian Alliance, contradicted the Vice President. "I am compelled sorrowfully to say that the exact opposite is true," he told delegates to the North American Area Council of the Alliance. "Two decades ago the Roman Catholic Church made concordats with the totalitarian rulers of Italy and Germany . . . Today the Roman Catholic Church has a concordat...
Francis W. Davis '10, inventor of power steering, has given $50,000 to establish a fellowship in honor of Lionel S. Marks, Gordon MacKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, emeritus, who died enrolls to Mexico last Thursday...
...January, when Harris was temporarily laid up by a heart ailment, Vice President Malcolm S. Mackay, who was named executive vice president a fortnight ago, took the controls. At the same time, the board rescinded its earlier approval of Harris' long-range program and decided to defer payment of the quarterly preferred-stock dividend. That knocked the common down another 1½ points, to 7½. The next day, without a word to President Harris, an executive of the company notified a St. Paul newspaper that Harris...
...Malcolm S. Mackay, 45, vice president of Northwest Airlines, Inc., was named executive vice president, a title befitting his current duties. Nominally in charge of the continental division, Mackay has been Northwest's acting boss since January, when hard-driving President Harold R. Harris was laid low by a heart ailment...