Word: mason
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Mason Little, Class of 1918, has been appointed Secretary to the University by vote of the Harvard Corporation, it was announced yesterday...
Guatemala. In the ruins of the Mayan city of Piedras Negras, an expedition headed by Dr. J. Alden Mason of Philadelphia's University Museum found a rectangular limestone carving in high relief which showed plainly that the unknown sculptor had a sense of humor, at least of satiric portraiture. The block, 49 in. long, was called a lintel, although its scanty margins indicated that it was used not over a doorway but as a wall tablet. Parts of the carving were effaced, but by squeezing every available clue Miss M. Louise Baker, experienced archeological artist, was able to make...
...Iceman Mason is no novice at motor making. After graduating from the University of Michigan as a business-trained engineer (Class of 1913), he went into Studebaker's manufacturing division, then switched to Dodge. After the War he did a turn in a Manhattan bank, leaving to help Walter P. Chrysler with the metamorphosis of old Maxwell Motor into Chrysler Corp. For four years he was Chrysler's works manager. Then restless Mr. Mason quit the motor industry for the second time, entering Kelvinator at the top after a brief term as president for another refrigerator maker...
...worth of assets are in banks or Government bonds. Its name is potent. But Nash lost money from 1933 through 1935, is not making much money now. Its sales organization, the key to modern motor profit, needs strengthening, and sales organization is one of Mr. Mason's long suits. Kelvinator has 10,000 dealers, Nash only...
Only one thing was wrong with this picture: George Mason did not want to leave Kelvinator. Why not, said Mr. Nash, bring Kelvinator with him? General Motors has Frigidaire, Borg-Warner has Norge, Chrysler, if not in refrigerators, is in air conditioning. So last week-after a flat denial from old Mr. Nash that a merger was in the making-the deal was announced. Subject to stockholder approval on both sides, each share of Kelvinator will be exchanged for 1⅜ shares of Nash. Then Nash will change its name to Nash-Kelvinator Corp. with Mr. Nash as chairman...