Word: postals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skyscraper should have a distinguished portrait in it. Clarence H. Mackay, President of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., decided Cardinal Hayes was fit subject for such a portrait, to be hung in the new Knights of Columbus club hotel, N. Y. And Sir John Lavery of London, thought Mr. Mackay, was a fit artist. Last week the commission was announced...
Said Clarence H. Mackay (Postal Telegraph-Commercial Cables) last week, as footnote to his company's survey of Florida: "Business conditions in the state are improving rapidly and recovery from the disaster of a year ago should be complete by the end of 1927. . . . Farmers are busy. Those who became salesmen or cut down their orange groves to make subdivisions of their farms have gone back to cultivation and are producing commodities. A general feeling pervades the state that many northern banks are not informed, are pessimistic...
...Juniors were nominated by the Student Council last night for election to next year's Council. Of the 15 members of the Class of 1928 who were nominated, seven will be chosen, and three of the seven Sophomores nominated will be elected. The votes will be taken by postal ballots which will be sent out immediately to members of the Sophomore and Junior Classes...
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...