Word: mason
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Seton Porter sensed the groundswell of Repeal, things began to hum. One wintry day in 1932 he called up Henry Mason Day, the big, grizzled, taciturn partner of Redmond & Co. who loyally went to jail with his good friend Harry Ford Sinclair for jury-shadowing. Mr. Day picked up one of the seven telephones on his desk and listened to Mr. Porter's suggestion that National Distillers, aside from the dynamite of Repeal, was a pretty good thing at around $16 per share. Mr. Day cocked an eye at the ebony elephant on his desk. Mr. Porter needed...
Since then Mason Day has never been very far from Seton Porter in his busy preparations for the big stampede. Among other things Mr. Day got the ear of President William E. Levis of Owens-Illinois Glass, who bought 40,000 shares of National Distillers for his bottle company. That deal on top of the famed whiskey dividend (one case, pre-prohibition, for each five shares) made Wall Street acutely conscious of National Distillers. In last summer's boom its stock hit a high of $124. Last month National Distillers contributed the first major stock-split...
...Communism Works" tonight at 7.45 o'clock in New Lecture Hall. The talk is sponsored by the Liberal Club and the Harvard Inquiry. In honor of Mr. Steffens a dinner will be held at Kirkland House preceding the lecture. Guests at the dinner will be Edward S. Mason, associate professor of Economics; Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History; Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government; and Bruce Bliven, editor of the "New Republic...
...distinguished scientists from all over the country looked on, Dr. Max Mason, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and chairman of the Comstock Fund Committee, presented Professor Bridgman with a gift of $2,500, given as a recognition of his investigations into the electrical constitution of matter. The prize is awarded "for the most important discovery or investigation in electricity, magnetism, or radiant energy, or to aid investigation in these fields...
...awarding the prize, Dr. Mason lauded Professor Bridgman as a man who has served the broad field of science in a most significant way. Referring to Professor Bridgman's scientific and philosophical writings, Dr. Mason stated that "such contributions could be made only by the rare person who is at the same time a gifted experimenter, an able theorist, and a sensible...