Word: masons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centre and political hotspot 260 miles up the Tigris from Bagdad, natives were told by agitators that the British had done away with their King. At high noon, an angry mob of Iraqi rushed the city's British Consulate, dragged out 52-year-old Consul George E.A.C. Monck-Mason, a trim, clipped civil servant whose 30-year consular career had taken him to most Near East trouble spots. Then they set fire to the building, and killed George Monck-Mason in the slow, brutal way in which Oriental mobs have for centuries disposed of those they hated; they knocked...
...President William S. Knudsen dropped from $459,878 to $247,210. Ford Motor Co. paid Chairman Henry Ford nothing, President Edsel Ford $146,056, Vice President Peter Martin $171,465, Superintendent Charles E. Sorensen $166,071. Nash-Kelvinator Corp. paid its President George Walter Mason $233,957; Chrysler Corp.'s Chairman Walter P. Chrysler drew...
...care what sentence I get," said Prisoner Peter Stuart in the dock of a London court last week, "because the fight will go on." Peter got 15 years. Michael Joseph Mason got 17. Seven of their friends got 59½ among them. Their crime: being good soldiers of the Irish Republican Army-i.e., bomb-planters...
...were grinding out morning editions. Suddenly came a bomb's heavy thud. Part of the News-Chronicle office crumbled. No one was hurt but. when the presses were stopped, it was discovered that one story they had been running off was a gloating little piece about Michael Joseph Mason's 17-year sentence, Peter Stuart's 15 years, and their seven friends who got 59 ½ among them...
...years that the college business, what with sluggish enrollment and a drying up of endowment sources, is bad. Big, well-heeled colleges and universities and a few progressive institutions are prosperous, but many a small college does not know where its next student is coming from. Last fortnight Trentwell Mason White of Boston's Curry School (a small college) reported a buyers' market in colleges. In an article in The Commentator, "Colleges for Sale," he related his findings...