Word: mason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later recorded it-leaving out the references to whiskey. Disc jockeys in Los Angeles started plugging it last month, and soon McVea's record had sold 300,000 copies, mostly on the West Coast. As soon as it caught on, McVea heard from the lawyers of John Mason, an old-time Harlem comic who had written the Richard skit back in 1919. Mason was hastily cut in for half the profits...
...Young, then an obscure Wall Street millionaire with a sharp eye for bargains, thought the potential whole was worth the pieces. For $4,000,000 cash which he and some friends put up, he bought control of Alleghany Corp. from George A. Ball (Ball Mason jars), who was dabbling in rail stocks. (Another 1.2 million shares were held by Ball as security for an additional $2 million which Young needed to complete the deal.) For this small amount of money, Bob Young got close to $2 billion worth of assets, on the books. The assets included either large stock interests...
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...Aversion. In Portland, Ore., William Mason, whose neighbor would not keep his yapping dog locked up at night, finally won his point after crawling around on all fours outside the neighbor's house and barking at the top of his lungs...
...only amens Father Knox got were from Colonel Van Wyck Mason and Dorothy Sayers (both mystery alumni) -and Mason's was qualified. He had long ago decided, said he, that authors had "used just about every known device in mystery stories"; yet innocent new generations of readers were always coming up. "In common with the novel," generalized all-out Miss Sayers, "the detective story is likely to decline in the future. . . . I don't read fiction any more...