Word: mason
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...college, N. Y. U., the same question came up this year, and was settled by the head of the University with the arbitrary method of forbidding any colored athlete from competing in a contest with a southern team. A football player was not taken on a trip across the Mason and Dixon line. A basketball player was not allowed to play in Madison Square Garden against a team of Southerners. Finally, despite protests from the entire student body and a sympathy strike staged by half his teammates, the Negro co-captain of the track team was ruled out from taking...
With Acting Master and Senior Tutor Seymour Harris heading a staff that includes Professors Leontieff, Mason, and Schumpeter, and Instructors P.M. Sweezy and J.R. Nelson, Economics is the House's strongest field. The outstanding History tutor is Professor Crane Brinton, head of the Department and resident in the House, while Assistant Professor Pendleton Herring, secretary of the Littauer School of Public Administration, is among the Government tutors...
Recorder. In Belleville, N. J., Eugene Mason Gavery, registrar of vital statistics, died after a long illness. His age was not known...
Next day the council divulged a more damaging document: a report of the 1938 Communist Party convention in New York by one "J. Mason," believed to be a prominent member of Local 5. "Mason" referred to Local 5 as "our" (i.e., the Communists') local, and went on: "It has grown from about 300 three years ago to 7,000 today. We also helped set up the WPA and college teachers' locals of 1,000 each. . . . There are several hundred party members in the union. This is a big fraction and more than is necessary in our industry...
Austin B. Mason, Jr., chairman of the Smoker Committee, said last night that the outcome of he poll was a "fine indication" of the spirit of the class, and predicted that class support would make the affair "a whale of a show...