Word: postals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fair and John W. Mackay, father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Hungerford Mackay. Said to be richest claim in the world, the Comstock yielded $340,000,000 pay dirt between 1864 and 1884, brought Fame & Fortune to the combination of Mackay, Flood, O'Brien & Fair...
...slave who is sexton of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. He wears white robes, golden keys around his neck and his own long, crinkly beard. Pilgrim of Determination is Esther Jones, a dry-cleaner; Millionaire is Hubert Jones, an Atlanta barber; Devil is George A. Pullum, a railway postal clerk. Reader or interpreter, who also helps guide the action of the play, has been Estella Z. Wright, 20-year-old Negro stenographer, soon to join the staff of Pittsburgh's Negro Courier. None of the actors in Heaven Bound receives wages. The first production cost $155, realized...
Married. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 57, president of Postal Telegraph Cable Co., director of Metropolitan Opera Company; and Anna Case, 42, onetime Metropolitan Opera and concert soprano, daughter of a South Branch, N. J. blacksmith; in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Roslyn, L. I., not far from Mr. Mackay's $6,000,000 estate "Harbor Hill." Among those witnessing the ceremony were the groom's daughter Ellin and her husband, songwriter Irving Berlin, whom Mr. Mackay had never before countenanced. After the ceremony bride & groom cruised away on his yacht Manchonoch...
...Postal Deficit...
...debt, the Behn Brothers took it over, combined with it the Cuban telephone system a few years later. They have been accumulating telephone and telegraph systems the world over ever since.† I. T. & T.'s most noteworthy purchase in North America was the Mackay companies which included Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., bought in 1928. Col. Sosthenes, the more glamorous half of the Brothers Behn, acquired his title during the World War when he distinguished himself with the U. S. Signal Corps in France. An industrial Don Quixote, he specializes in daring enterprises. As chairman...