Word: mason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bosses, earthy and disillusioned men, have sometimes found talent where more snobbish souls would never have thought to look. In 1921, with his haberdashery under the hammer and black days ahead, Truman looked up some old servicemen friends in the Pendergast organization. Truman was a veteran, a farmer, a Mason, a Democrat from three generations back; he had friends all over Jackson County. The machine made him road overseer, then country judge (an administrative post), finally U.S. Senator...
...first steps taken by the new staff was the appointment in each class of representatives for the yearbook. Ens. Robert E. Gates was designated as representative of Class B. Ens. Howard Mason will represent Class C. Class E's agent will be Ens. Edward A. Woleslagel...
...CASE OF THE SMOKING CHIMNEY-Erle Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Author Gardner here makes his annual switch from his lawyer sleuth Perry Mason to his equally nimble-minded California oldster "Cramps" Wiggins, who helps the law understand an apparent suicide in a squalid shack...
Waitresses are actually quitting their jobs, says John W. Mason, Continental Hotel headwaiter, because poor tipping makes war jobs look bigger and bigger, but even during the pourboire drought, Harvard men are always good tipsters. At least when they come to the Continental...
...Mason finds that other liberal tippers are usually from somewhere East or North. His many years of service in connection with hotels has convinced him that traditionally generous Southerners and Westerners tip least...