Word: mason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Focus. The average Mason comes close to being the average U.S. male-a hearty fellow with an inner loneliness which he cannot quite define. He is anxious to share in good works. U.S. Masonry supports some 4,500 of its aged brethren and their wives in 30 homes, also supports homes for some 1,400 orphaned and needy children...
...order's air of secrecy aroused violent political hostility in the U.S. When a ne'er-do-well ex-Mason named William Morgan wrote an "exposure" of its secrets, then disappeared, Masonry found itself fighting for its life. It was charged that Morgan, who had indeed been kidnaped in 1826, had also been slain. His body never turned...
...Anti-Masonic national political party was strong enough to put up William Wirt as a presidential candidate against Mason Andrew Jackson and capture Vermont's electoral votes. A century later, Franklin Roosevelt, a 32nd degree Mason, won the electoral votes of every state in the Union except Vermont and Maine. Altogether, 13 U.S. Presidents have been Masons; some others: Johnson, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, and Harry Truman...
...work up through the York Rite with fewer degrees but just as much prestige, to the top grade of Knight Templar. Or he can learn both rites. He does not necessarily emerge a better man than his Blue Lodge brother; he merely becomes a more erudite Mason...
...Quincy, Mass.; Thayer Academy, Braintree, Mass. Jertson, Jan Earl of 70 Green Street, Fairhaven, Mass.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Kimball, John Ward of 50 School Street, Andover, Mass.; Phillips Academy, Andover Mass. Lowry, Edward George, 3rd of Sweet Hollow Road, Huntington, N. Y.; Pomfret School, Pomfret Conn. Mason, James William of 2005 Dalton Rr., Greensboro, N. C.; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H. Newbury, Samuel Parkman of 2 Newton Street, Weston. Mass.; Milton Academy, Milton, Mass. Nichols, John Doane of Clinton Avenue, Westport, Conn.; Loomis School, Windsor, Conn. Petschek, Stephen Ronald of Southlawn, Birchall 'Drive, Scarsdale...