Word: mason
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican Arthur Capper, George McGill is far from being Kansas' No. 1 Democrat in Washington. He ranks in Federal patronage matters below Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy T. Helvering and Secretary of War Harry Woodring. In social Washington he cuts even less ice. An Elk, a 32nd degree Mason and a Shriner, he spends most of his time at home. His wife, who calls him "Senator," drives the family Buick. Regarded by his friends as a loyal New Dealer and by his enemies as a humdrum Main Street politician, George McGill is not so sleepy as he looks...
...summer school has always been known for its excellent courses in the drama, and this year was no exception. John Mason Brown, dramatic critic of the New York Post, gave the most popular course in the yard. "The History of the Modern Theatre." A one-act tragedy written in Brown's course last year, "Vengeance in Leka", was among the plays put on in the Hasty Pudding Club theatre under the direction of Frederick C, Packard, assistant professor of Public Speaking...
Besides President Sullivan the 1938-30 Council consists of Robert M. Bunker '30, treasurer, J. Spence Harvin, '39, secretary, Cieveland Amory '39, Oilver P. Bolton '30, Claronce E. Boston '39, Charles L. Burwell '39, Morton L. Freed '39, Robert L. Green '39, F. Austin Harding '39, James Tobin '39, Mason Fernald '40, Theodore L. Hazlett Jr. '40, Frederick Holdworth '40, James D. Lightbody '40, Douglas Mereer '40, and Phil C. Neal...
...year-old, Carolina-born, W. (for William) Harllee Branch, a Washington news correspondent who, after 30 years in news paper work from typesetting to editing, became executive assistant to Postmaster General Farley in 1933. Only airline executive named to the Authority was 34-year-old Socialite George Grant Mason Jr., foreign representative of Pan American Airways in charge of Caribbean service. Iowa-born, New York-bred. Fourth Authority member is Mormon-born Democrat Robert Hinckley, assistant WPA administrator for Far Western States and supervisor of considerable WPA airport and airway project work. Fifty-year-old Indiana Republican Oswald Ryan, fifth...
...Some of his best fun was at the grounds of New York City's 1939 World's Fair. There, laying the cornerstone of the Fair's Federal Building, he said with a twinkle in his eye: "The master mason certifies that the cornerstone is well and truly laid and in return I have assured him that I hold a union card.''* There, accompanied by his dumpty little Fusion Republican friend, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, he also had the experience of being introduced to 20,000 delegates of the National Education Association...