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by Birmingham, Stephen;


  McCaffrey, Bernard, 33

  McCormick, Paul J., Judge, 123–124

  MacDonald, Byrnes, 281

  MacDonald, George, 280–281

  Macdonald, Helen, 96

  MacDonald, Paul D., 264, 271

  McDonnell, Alexander, 56

  McDonnell, Anna Murray (Mrs. James Francis McDonnell), 5, 6, 46, 50, 51, 56, 93–94, 97, 225, 229, 231; in McDonnell & Company, 259, 262, 271–274; wedding, 21–22

  McDonnell, Sir Anthony, 56

  McDonnell, Barbara (Mrs. John F. Hennessy, Jr.), 98, 233

  McDonnell, Catherine (Mrs. Raymond Peter Sullivan), 96, 99

  McDonnell, Charles (Bish), 256, 272

  McDonnell, Charlotte, see Harris, Charlotte McDonnell

  McDonnell, Francis, 56

  McDonnell, James Francis, 21, 56–58, 93, 225, 255; family, 46, 50–51, 284; in Ireland, visits Drumlish, 9–10; Southampton house, 5, 45–46; stock rights trading system, 56–58; wedding, 21–22

  McDonnell, James Francis, Jr., 50, 96

  McDonnell, John Vincent, 46, 99, 271

  McDonnell, Marie Murray (Mrs. John Vincent McDonnell), see Lufkin, Marie Murray

  McDonnell, Morgan, 259, 267

  McDonnell, Murray, 96, 232, 255–256, 258, 262, 264–272, 274, 279; failure of McDonnell & Company, 4–5, 270–272, 275–277

  McDonnell, Peggy Flanigan (Mrs. Murray McDonnell), 223, 256, 259, 271

  McDonnell, Peter, 10, 16, 21

  McDonnell, Randal, Earl of Antrim, 55

  McDonnell, Sean, 98, 261–263

  McDonnell, Sean Oarach, 56

  McDonnell, Sorley Boy, 56

  McDonnell, T. Murray, see McDonnell, Murray

  McDonnell & Company, 56–58, 60–61, 93, 255–272; beginning, 56; failure, 3–7, 270–272, 275–277

  McDonnell family, 5–6, 55–61, 85, 94–95, 103, 149, 175, 181, 182, 184, 186, 200, 224–227, 241, 247, 284; apartment, 910 Fifth Avenue, New York, 5, 95, 255; in failure of McDonnell & Company, 272–273; in Ireland, 8–10, 55–56; at Southampton, 48–51, 255

  McGinley, Father Laurence, 287

  MacGuire, Bea, 287–288

  MacGuire, Beatrice Butler (Mrs. D. Philip MacGuire), 85

  MacGuire, James Butler, 85, 99

  MacGuire, Judith Ann, 248

  McGuire, Mabel Cuddihy (Mrs. T. Burt McGuire), 71, 75

  MacGuire, Mary Jane Cuddihy (Mrs. James Butler MacGuire), 75, 85, 94, 96, 98, 206, 224, 248, 287–288; and brother Bob Cuddihy, 288, 290–294, 298–299; debut, 230–231; Errol Flynn’s date with, 5, 231; marriage, 99; reminiscences, 52–53, 230–231, 242

  McGuire, T. Burt, Jr., 85–86

  McGuire (MacGuire) family, 75

  Mackay, Anna Case (Mrs. Clarence Mackay), 141

  Mackay, Clarence, 140–141, 197, 280

  Mackay, Ellin (Mrs. Irving Berlin), 141

  Mackay, John William, 135, 138–141

  Mackay, John William, 11, 141

  Mackay, Katherine (Mrs. Kenneth O’Brien), 141, 280

  Mackay, Katherine Alexander Duet (Mrs. Clarence Mackay), 140–141

  Mackay, Louise Hungerford Bryant (Mrs. John William Mackay), 138–140

  McKay, Thomas, 268, 270

  Mackay, William (Willie), 140

  Mackay family, 142, 224

  Mackay School of Mines, Reno, Nev., 140

  McKinley, William, 213

  McLaughlin (political boss), 30

  McLean, Edward B., 119, 145–148

  McLean, Evalyn Walsh (Mrs. Edward B. McLean), 119, 144–148

  McLean, John, 145

  McLean, Vinson, 147–148

  McMillen (interior decorator), 93, 226

  McQuail, J. Ennis, 225

  McQuail, Katherine Murray (Mrs. J. Ennis McQuail), 46, 50, 225, 247

  McQuail family, 58

  MacSpovran, John, 96

  Malta, 245

  Malta, Knights of, see Knights of Malta

  Manhasset, Long Island, “Irish Channel,” 192–193, 232

  Manhattanville College, 242

  Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 285

  Mark, George, 276

  Marquand, John P., 43

  Martino, Joe, 232

  Marx, Louis, 271

  Marymount School and College, 84, 242

  Maxwell, George, 171–172

  Maxwell, Sally Tuck (Mrs. George Maxwell), 172

  Meehan, Mike, 176–177, 179, 181

  Mesta, Perle, 146

  Metropolitan Device Corporation, 200–201

  Metropolitan Street Railway Company, 153

  Mexican Petroleum Company, 105

  Mexico: Buckley’s enterprises in, 210–212; U.S. invasion of, 213

  Michael, Monty, 210–211

  Milbank, Jeremiah, 179

  Miller, William, 156

  Minneapolis, 223

  Monaco, Grace, Princess of, 216, 232–233, 258

  Monaco, Rainier, Prince of, 216, 232

  Moore, John J. D., 245

  Morgan, Dorothy, 96

  Morgan, J. P., 154–156, 180

  Morgan & Company, 176

  Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 180

  Moses, Robert, 93

  Mother Lode, 138

  Motion picture industry, 181–184

  Moynihan, Daniel, 43

  Murphy, Charles F., 280

  Murphy, Gerald, 189

  Murphy, Sara (Mrs. Gerald Murphy), 189

  Murray, Anastatia McGrath (Mrs. John Murray), 22

  Murray, Anna, see McDonnell, Anna Murray

  Murray, Arthur M., Jr., 295

  Murray, Catherine Bradley (Mrs. Thomas E. Murray), 22, 25, 35, 51–52

  Murray, Constance, 100

  Murray, Rev. D. Bradley, 233, 251

  Murray, Daniel, 47, 90

  Murray, Frank, 99–100

  Murray, Jeanne, see Vandcrbilt, Jeanne Murray

  Murray, Jeanne Durand (Mrs. John F. Murray), 48, 89–91, 100, 207

  Murray, John (father of Thomas E. Murray), 22

  Murray, John F. (Jack, son of Thomas E. Murray), 45, 48, 49,

  Murray, John F., Jr. (Jake), 239, 285; The Devil Walks on Water, 250, 288

  Murray, Joseph Bradley, 46, 48, 49, 87–90, 92, 95, 226; family, 88; marriage, 22, 58–60

  Murray, Marie, see Lufkin, Marie Murray

  Murray, Patricia, 94

  Murray, Philip A., 229

  Murray, Rosamund (Mrs. Buckley Byers), 96, 98–99

  Murray, Theresa Farrell (Mrs. Joseph Bradley Murray), 88, 231; marriage, 22, 58–60

  Murray, Thomas E., 22, 35–39, 49, 52–54, 58, 71, 148, 190, 199, 232, 250, 285; Catholic beliefs and practices, 36–38; dead, 53; early career, 23–25; family, 35, 37–39, 46–49, 54, 75, 287; fortune, size of, 53; house, 783 St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn, 36; inventions, 24–25, 35, 36, 38–39, 45, 54, 87; marriage, 25, 35; Papal honors, 36, 244; petition on his trust fund, 6, 301–304; Southampton house, 45; will, 90 Murray, Thomas E., Jr., 46–48, 89–94, 97–100, 200–207, 223–224, 229, 239, 243, 250; on Atomic Energy Commission, 202–206; atomic energy control, ideas on, 203–207; Nuclear Policy for War and Peace, 206–207; Papal honors, 91, 244; patents, 201; quarrel with his brother Jack, 89–90

  Murray, Thomas E., 11, 233

  Murray, Mrs. Thomas E., Jr., 48, 231

  Murray family, 5–6, 39, 58, 85, 87, 90–91, 103, 149, 175, 182, 184, 186, 200, 224, 228, 238, 241, 247; intellectual life, 250–231; at Southampton, 46–49, 51, 52, 93

  Murray Hill Hotel, New York, 77

  Murray Manufacturing Company, 36, 99

  Nantasket, Mass., 185

  National Cigarette Company, 152

  National Review, 218, 219

  National Security Council, 204

  Navy Department, U.S., oil lands leased, 110–111, 113, 133

  New Orleans, 150

  Newport, R. I., 40–41, 236–237

  Newsweek, 72

  New York (City): churches, fashionable, 248; Irish immigrants in, 16–20, 41; Police Department, Lexow Com
mittee investigation, 34–35

  New York (State): Assembly, 31; Senate, 31–35 New York Archdiocese, 5, 249, 262, 266

  New York Athletic Club, 232, 270

  New York Daily News, 100, 207

  New Yorker, The, 73, 141, 278

  New York Evening Post, 63

  New York Journal, 96

  New York Mirror, 96

  New York Stock Exchange, see Stock Exchange, New York

  New York Sun, 17

  New York Times, 4, 53, 59, 109, 183, 206, 220, 226–227, 297; Book Review, 206–07

  New York Tribune, 18, 19

  New York World, 127, 164, 165

  New York World’s Fair (1939–1940), 93

  New York World-Telegram, 228

  Niarchos, Charlotte Ford (Mrs. Stavros Niarchos), 257, 258, 272, 285

  Niarchos, Stavros, 6, 285

  Niarchos, Tina (Mrs. Stavros Niarchos), 285

  Nixon, Richard M., 274

  North, John Ringling, 277

  Northern Pacific Railroad, 162

  Notre Dame University, 238–239

  Obregón, Alvaro, 212

  O’Brien, Jack, 278

  O’Brien, Katherine Mackay (Mrs. Kenneth O’Brien), 141, 280

  O’Brien, Kenneth, 279–280

  O’Brien, Lawrence F., 261, 270–271

  O’Brien, Morgan J., Judge, 40, 45, 59, 232, 279, 280

  O’Brien, Pat, 277

  O’Brien, William S., 135, 136

  O’Casey, Sean, 227

  O’Connor, Basil, 278

  O’Connor, P. J., & Company, 77

  O’Connor, Patrick J., 77

  Oelrichs, Theresa Fair (Mrs. Hermann Oehlrichs), 142

  O’Faolain, Sean, 26

  O’Gorman, James A., 280

  O’Gorman, James A., Jr., 280

  O’Hara, John, 277, 279, 283

  O’Hara, Maureen, 277

  Oil industry, 105, 210–212

  Oil lands: Fall and Doheny in control of, 112–115; investigation and scandal, 117–132; Navy Department leases, 110–111, 113

  Onassis, Aristotle, 283

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 5–6, 241, 256

  O’Neill, Eugene, 278

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 202

  Ormond, Duke of, 76

  Osservatore Romano, 194

  O’Sullivan, Maureen, 277

  Ouray, Colo., 144

  Paal, Alexander, 99–100

  Pacelli, Cardinal, see Pius XII, Pope

  Paley, William, 232

  Palm Beach, Fla., 180, 186

  Palmer, Mrs. Potter, 145

  Paxton, Frederick Logan, 142

  Peapack, N.J., McDonnell home, 4, 5

  Pearl Harbor, oil storage tanks, 114, 123, 128, 132

  Pebbles (horse), 81

  Phelari, Father Gerald, 239

  Pike, Bishop James, 278

  Pinehurst, N.C., 233

  Pius X, Pope, 153

  Pius XII, Pope (Cardinal Pacelli), 91, 190, 191; visit to U.S., 193–198

  Plunkett, Robert, 129

  Portsmouth Priory (Portsmouth Abbey), 71–72, 92, 236–238, 288, 289, 297; The Raven, yearbook, 200–201

  Post, Emily Price: Etiquette, 67–68, 74; letter to Robert J. Cuddihy, 68

  Potato famine in Ireland, 10–15

  Prince of Wales (Edward VII), 139

  Prince of Wales (Edward VIII), see Windsor, Duke of

  Princeton University, 239, 281

  Prohibition, 37; Literary Digest poll on, 66

  Public Opinion, 64

  Quakers (Society of Friends), 16

  Quarantine Station, Staten Island, 18–19

  Queen Elizabeth, 9

  Queen Kelly (film), 182–183

  Questionnaire (hone), 81

  Quinn, Harry, 96

  Quinn, John, 278–279

  Rainier, Prince of Monaco, 216, 232

  Ralston, William, 135

  Randolph, Nancy, 291

  Ranelett, Kitty, 96–97

  Resorts, 232–234

  Review of Reviews, 73, 74

  Reynolds, John, 249

  Reynolds, Mrs. Robert, 148

  Rhodes, 245

  Rikover, Adm. Hyman, 205

  Ristine, F. P., & Company, 262

  Roberts, Edward F., 29

  Robison, Capt. John Keeler, 110–111

  Roche, Mrs. Murray, 248

  Rockefeller, John D., 83, 105

  Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 229

  Rockefeller, Percy, 177

  “Rock Ledge,” South Norwalk, Conn., Farrell estate, 59–60

  Rome, Bradys in, 189–191

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 43, 44, 197–198

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 44, 90, 202, 278, 280; Cardinal Pacelli visits, 196–198; Coughlin’s attack on, 193–195; and Joseph P. Kennedy, 180–181; Literary Digest polls on, 66, 71–73

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 47

  Ross, Harold, 278

  Roth, Lillian, 85–86

  Rothermere, Lord, 177

  Royal Typewriter Company, 172

  Rozelle, Pete, 285

  Russell, Monsignor, 146, 148

  Russell, Roswell P., 231

  Russell T. (horse), 78

  Russelltown, Ireland, 76, 79

  Ryan, Adele, 172

  Ryan, Allan A., 158–172, 179; bankruptcy, 168–169; and Stutz Motor Company stock, 159–167, 169

  Ryan, Allan A., & Company, 158–159, 173

  Ryan, Mrs. Allan A. (first), 160, 172

  Ryan, Allan A., Jr., 172

  Ryan, Barry, 172

  Ryan, Caroline, 174

  Ryan, Gendenin, 169, 171, 173–174

  Ryan, Gendenin, Jr., 174

  Ryan, Dorinda Dixon (Mrs. John Barry Ryan 111), 173

  Ryan, Eleanor Barry (Mrs. Allan A. Ryan, Jr.), 172

  Ryan, Fortune Peter, 172

  Ryan, Grace Amory (Mrs. Allan A. Ryan, Jr.), 172

  Ryan, Helen Cuddihy (Mrs. William J. Ryan), 71

  Ryan, Ida Barry (Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan), 150, 153, 157

  Ryan, Irene McKenna (Mrs. Allan A. Ryan), 172

  Ryan, Janet Newbold (Mrs. Allan A. Ryan, Jr.), 172

  Ryan, John Barry, 169, 171, 172, 232

  Ryan, John Barry, Jr., 173

  Ryan, John Barry, 111, 173

  Ryan, Joseph, Jr., 173

  Ryan, Joseph P., 229

  Ryan, Mrs. Leonard, 295–297

  Ryan, Margaret Kahn (Mrs. John Barry Ryan, Jr.), 173

  Ryan, Margaret Moorhead Rea (Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan II), 173

  Ryan, Mary T. Nicoll (Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan), 157–158, 169

  Ryan, Mayme Cook Masters (Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan II), 173

  Ryan, Miriam, 170

  Ryan, Nan Morgan (Mrs. John Barry Ryan), 172

  Ryan, Nannie Moore (Mrs. Joseph Ryan, Jr.), 173

  Ryan, Philip, 149

  Ryan, Priscilla St. George (Mrs. Allan A. Ryan, Jr.), 172

  Ryan, Theodore, 172

  Ryan, Thomas Fortune, 150–158, 163, 165, 172, 178; and Allan, his son, 158, 165, 168; converted to Catholicism, 150–151; and Equitable Life Assurance Society, 153–156; second marriage, 157–158; in tobacco industry, 152; will and estate, 169–170

  Ryan, Thomas Fortune, 11, 173

  Ryan family, 149–150, 171–174, 232 Rye, N.Y., 46

  Sachs, Dr. Julius, 236

  Sachs Collegiate Institute, 236

  Sacred Heart, Order of, 84; nuns, 240; schools, 239–241

  Sacred Heart Convent, Tarrytown, N.Y., 85

  St. George’s School, 237

  St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tenn., 245

  St. Louis, 150

  St. Michael’s College, Toronto, 239

  St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, 84, 96, 174, 248

  St. Paul, 150, 223

  St. Paul’s School, 235

  St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York, 248

  Saltaire, Fire Island, 232

  Sanford, John, 79

  San Francisco, 135–137, 14
2–143, 150, 224

  Saturday Evening Post, 65, 117

  Scandinavian Catholics, 223

  Schenck, Joseph M., 181–182

  Schiff, Jacob H., 154–155, 173

  Schiff family, 59, 103

  Schwab, Charles M., 59, 174; Allan Ryan and, 158, 163, 169, 171

  Securities and Exchange Commission, 180–181, 275

  Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, 118

  Sharon, William, 135

  Sharon, Conn., 212

  Sheehan, William, 280

  Sheen, Monsignor Fulton J., 96–98, 258

  Sheridan, Jane Murray (Mrs. Thomas I. Sheridan), 233, 248

  Sheridan, Thomas I., 233, 234

  Sherman Hotel, Chicago, 76

  Shevlin, Tom, 281–282

  Shippingport, Pa., atomic reactor, 205

  Shrivet, Sargent, 233

  Simon, Sir John, 182

  Sinclair, Harry F., in oil lands case, 113–115, 122

  Skakel, Rushton W., 233

  Sloaoe, John, 137

  Smith, Alfred E, 66, 98, 277

  Smith, Alfred E, Memorial Dinner, 229

  Smith, Bernard E., 176–181

  Smith, C. Aubrey, 280

  Smith, Harry K., 94

  Smith, Stephen, 233

  Smith & Watson, 93–94

  Smoot, Reed, 121

  Social Register, 6, 142, 185, 208, 224, 229, 232, 291, 295

  Society, Irish in, 39, 53, 59, 184–186, 222–233

  Sons of St Tammany, 29–30; see Tammany Hall

  Southampton, Long Island, 5, 40, 45–52, 228, 232; McDonnell-Ford wedding, 97–98; McDonnell home, 5, 45–46, 95, 255, 272

  Sowbelly Gulch, Colo., 143–144

  Speilman, Francis Cardinal, 229, 231, 248, 294; and Brady family, 190–192, 197–198; and Cardinal Pacelli’s visit to U.S., 193–196; and Lester Cuddihy, 91–92; in Rome, 190–191

  Spencer-Churchill, Lord Charles, 257

  Sperry & Hutchinson Building, New York, 249

  Spring Lake, N.J., 232

  Spur (horse), 81

  Stanchfield and Levy, 164

  Stanford, Leland, 135

  Stapleton, Maureen, 277

  Star of the East Diamond, 145

  Staten Island, Quarantine Station, 18–19

  Sting (horse), 81

  Stock Exchange, New York, 181, 201, 258–259, 269; and McDonnell & Company failure, 4, 264, 270, 275, 276; Ryan expelled from, 167–168; and Ryan’s Stutz Motor Company operations, 160–167

  Stock market: bull and bear operators, 159; Crash, 1929, 177, 180; 1920 recession, 167–168; 1969–1970 decline, 4; short selling. 159–164; small investors, 177

  Stock rights trading, 56–58

  Stotesbuty, Mrs. Edward T., 50

  Strauss, Lewis L., 202–206

  Stroheim, Erich Von, 182–183

  Strontium 90, 205

  Stutz Bearcat, 159, 163, 174

  Stutz Motor Company, 159–166, 169, 174

  Sullivan, Annie, 278

 

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