Word: hungerford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armor & Arms Club's first president in 1921 was the late Bashford Dean, arms curator of the Metropolitan Museum. Now numbering 50 men, probably its best known member is Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay who owns one of the finest private collections of armor in the world. The members are scholars who have written learned papers on almost everything from Japanese sword-guards to lobster-tailed helmets...
...which has been mounting steadily these past ten years. Last week, after the mighty, culminating finale of Brahms' First Symphony, three thousand listeners rose, cried "Bravo! Bravo!" They cheered so long that Toscanini had to hurry in order to partake of the 3 5-pound turkey which Clarence Hungerford Mackay had sent him from his shooting-lodge in North Carolina...
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...
...Daughter of Socialite Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph. Two months after her story appeared she married Composer Irving Berlin...
...Pacific, did the generous and courteous thing. He had the necessary spare part in his shops in Omaha. It was rushed out to Denver by airplane over night and so the Zephyr was able to make its record breaking run and Ralph Budd's face was saved. . . . EDWARD HUNGERFORD New York City Pastor's Fast Sirs: My friends have been having a jolly time about the little reference you made to our experiment on the relief diet [TIME, May 21]. . . . We were simply trying out the regular FERA allowance for food. The Rev. Charles C. Noble of this...