Word: mackays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Machine & Foundry) 5,000 Samuel Bayard Colgate (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet) 5,000 Robert Sterling Clark (broker) . . 4,900 Archibald M. L. du Pont 2,500 Hal Roach (cinema comedies) . . 2,500 William Lockhart Clayton (cotton broker) 1,000 Renée W. Baruch (daughter) . . . 100 Mrs. Clarence Mackay...
...Mackay radio station at Los Angeles last fortnight went a halting message from the tight little tuna-fishing schooner Santa Amaro, Manuel Rodriguez, Master. The Santa Amaro, lying off Marchena Island, one of the northernmost of the Galapagos group, had exciting news to report. Passing bleak, barren, fresh-waterless Marchena that morning her crew spied a small skiff hauled high on the rocks of the shore. Swinging closer they saw a tall pole and fluttering from it a few limp rags. On shore they found a dead seal with strips of flesh hacked from it, a few bits of iguana...
Horses appealed to Marshall Field more than music, until last winter when the Philharmonic had to beg for its life. Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay, no longer able to take care of its deficits, refused to be its mouthpiece. President Harry Harkness Flagler became the campaign's commander, Marshall Field his gravely alert assistant. Together they underwrote the drive for $500,000. And Marshall Field became so interested in the Orchestra that he subscribed generously to the summer Stadium Concerts, went to many of them, gained a deeper understanding of Bach, Brahms, Beethoven...
...Ellin Mackay, singlehanded, did not put The New Yorker on its unsteady feet. Her contribution merely coincided with the beginnings of Editor Ross's success in getting what he wanted by a chaotic process of elimination. The process is described by FORTUNE...
...Daughter of Socialite Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph. Two months after her story appeared she married Composer Irving Berlin...