Word: mason
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horace Mason Reynolds, 5G, of Cambridge, Mass., to be Assistant in English...
Commissioner-designate Studebaker could earn his living as a brick mason if he needed to. As such, he worked his way through Toledo. Iowa's Leander Clark College (since merged with Coe), still holds a union card. Des Moines credits that experience with saving it many a dollar during a $7,000,000 school building program, and architects from all over the world go to see the building he planned for Des Moines' Smouse Opportunity School for the crippled...
...held. Not content with educating Des Moines children, he wangled a tentative $120,000 from Carnegie Corporation in 1933 for a five-year experiment in adult education. In two years he has received $45,000, kept a Public Forum humming with lectures on current affairs. He is a Methodist, Mason, Shriner, Rotarian. Time left over from education and lodge meetings he spends studying botany, raising flowers, fishing...
...brought in sheaves of cables and telegrams from President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, many another bigwig. Powel Crosley Jr., founder-president of Crosley Radio Corp. and owner of WLW, headed a six-hour program which 28 radio engineers broadcast from WLW's plant at Mason, 22 miles away. Thus with pomp & ceremony last week was inaugurated by far the most powerful transmitting station on earth. Until last week Warsaw led the world with a 158,000-watt station. John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley's troublesome XER, across the Mexican border, acclaimed itself largest...
Bellboy reserves are boated thus: cox: William W. Sprague '36; stroke Mason Hammond; 7, Horace B. Shepard, 2nd. '34; 6, Marius E. Johnston, Jr. '35; 5, John D. Kernan, Jr. '35, 4, Richard C. Delong '36; 3, George B. Lauriat '36; 2, Alvin Hyde '35; and bow, Russel Grinnel...