Word: mackays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clarence Hungerford Mackay, financier: "I control the Commercial Cables Co., the Postal Telegraph Co. and many another too. Last week, looking for an able man to run them all, I hit upon George V. McLaughlin, Police Commissioner of New York City. I made a job for him as executive vice president, director and member of the executive committee of the Postal Telegraph Co. I offered him a salary reported at $75,000 a year. Some newspaper men ascribed his eventual acceptance to his wife's insistence...
...BLUES FOR PAPA AND MAMA BERLIN," "BERLIN GOES WET" said New York picture captions. Irving Berlin, singing waitter and song writer, captured fat headline space when he ran off with Ellin Mackay, daugher of the Clarence Mackay who runs the Postal Telegraph. The occasion: the first picture since the preciptous honeymoon. The "papa and mama": a coy reference to their baby daughter. The "wet": Composer Berlin entering the surf at Palm Beach...
...Clarence Mackay, telegraph lord: "I got last week a first glimpse of my granddaughter, Mary Ellin Berlin, aged eight weeks, but only in a full front page photograph in the New York Daily Mirror, tabloid. As everyone knows, I disowned my daughter Ellin when she married Irving Berlin, songwriter, and I have also refused to visit the baby or let the baby visit me. The child, which was photographed asleep, looks like any dark, fat, healthy baby. People say this is the first time any baby's picture has occupied the entire front page of a newspaper...
Among musicians it is generally agreed that string chamber music is the highest, purest medium of expression. The wealthy patrons of art have taken heed: Felix M. Warburg, Clarence H. Mackay, James P. Warburg, Mrs. Robert Bliss, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Mrs. Alma Gluck Zimbalist. So, in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall, last week, a new quartet was heard, enthusiastically applauded for a lovely rendition of the Mozart C Major, Schubert D Minor-the Musical Art Quartet. Three of the artists are pupils of Franz Kneisel:-Sascha Jacobsen, Bernard Ocko, Louis Kaufman; one, Marie Roemaet-Rosanov, cellist, pupil...
...Looming young Manhattan lawyer and leader in the National Democratic Club, he married one of the daughters of Clarence H. Mackay. Irving Berlin, songster, married the other...