Word: mackays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great concern, it ran up a deficit of $30,000. The Symphony hopes to square itself by having Arturo Toscanini for its guest conductor in the spring. Toscanini has always wanted to go to California but the New York Philharmonic, none too happy itself since Clarence Mackay's fortune shrank, was unwilling to spare its one big drawing card during the winter season...
...combined it with the Cuban system a few years later. In 1920, after a deal with A. T. & T. had enabled them to lay a cable from Cuba to Key West, they formed I. T. & T. When they leaped into world prominence in 1928 by getting control of the Mackay-Postal telegraph system, they had already spun their web over most of South America, rehabilitated the telephones of Paris and Shanghai, helped to precipitate the Spanish revolution by giving Spaniards good telephones...
After Dana the Sun ownership passed to Paul Dana, his son, then to William Mackay Laffan, longtime Sim dramatic critic. The days of personal journalism were over; the Sun concentrated on its news coverage. It devoted page after page to the Spanish-American War, was the first to announce that yellow fever had broken out in Cuba. The Sun reporter there had got the news past the censors by using the words Jack Ochre, and Boss Lord's correct interpretation of Jack Ochre as "yellow fever" gave the Sun a major scoop over its bitter enemies, Hearst...
...Gates, of N. Y. Trust Co.............5,000 Walter S. Gifford, of A. T. &. T .........1,000 George H. Howard, of United Corp............2,000 Arthur Curtiss James ............2,000 Percy H. Johnston, of Chemical Bank & Trust ........1,000 Cornelius F. Kelley, of Anaconda ..........2,000 Clarence H. Mackay ...........2,000 Jlenry C. McEldowney, Pittsburgh banker ........5,000 Charles E. Mitchell ................10,000 Frederick K. Morrow, of United Cigar. .............1,000 Thomas Nelson Perkins, of A. T. & T. .............500 Wm. C. Potter, of Guaranty Trust Co. .............10,000 Seward Prosser, of Bankers Trust Co. ..............10,000 Alfred P. Sloan...
...shrewd daring and persistent battling I. T. & T. owed its spectacular soar to success. He was now to prove himself a bad-weather pilot of extraordinary ability. He hacked expenses, pruned salaries, wrote down assets. With his able brother, Hernand, he worked furiously to increase the efficiency of Mackay-Postal, built five new radio stations on the Atlantic Coast alone. When the storm began to clear it was apparent that Sosthenes Behn had not only braced his towering electrical companies to stand it, but had actually increased the volume of his business. From across the sea came reports that...