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...prisoners to escape. He had been posing as a windshield-wiper salesman. In his sample case was found another gun. Up to 1929, Arthur Barry had robbed rich Long Island and Connecticut homes of $2,000,000 in jewels. Among his victims were the first Mrs. Clarence Mackay, Joshua Cosden, Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Livermore. While robbing the Livermore bedroom, suave Arthur Barry courteously lit a cigaret for Mrs. Livermore, refrained from taking a ring which she particularly fancied, hoped it would bring her luck...
Clarence Hungerford Mackay denied a report, persistent in his Long Island neighborhood, that he, unable to meet heavy taxes, had deeded his 250-acre Roslyn estate "Harbor Hill" to the Roman Catholic church, which was permitting him to stay on in his house at nominal rent. The estate belongs not to him, is trusteed to his son John...
Died. James Lyle Mackay, first Earl of Inchcape, 79, British banking & shipping tycoon, board chairman of famed Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., vice president of Suez Canal Co.; after a general breakdown; aboard his yacht Rover, off Monte Carlo. His family withheld the news of his death until the London Stock Exchange closed. A poor Scottish boy, he rose to wealth & power in Indian trading firms. Branching out into Far Eastern shipping, Lord Inchcape became an authority on Oriental trade, negotiated Britain's basic commercial treaty with China in 1902. His daughter Elsie was lost in 1928 when...
Although last year's earnings were more than double interest charges, last week I. T. & T.'s three bond issues sold at forebodingly low prices of from 19¢ to 24¢ on $1 and the common stock below $5. In March it was reported in the Press tha Clarence Hungerford Mackay, chairman of Postal, director and big stockholder of I. T. & T., had fallen in his bathroom hurt his head. Last week it was an open secret that Chairman Mackay still lay abed, worried and fretful, may never attend another board meeting...
Born. To Irving Berlin, song writer, and Ellin Mackay Berlin, daughter of Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph Co.; a second daughter. Weight...