Word: masons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easing up on income requirements, Mason gave a bright green light to builders to pack more quality into houses. The new directive specifically instructs FHA local offices that "no otherwise acceptable" credit application for a house costing more than $12,000 is to be turned down because the builder spent "a few hundred dollars" putting in better wiring, insulation or wide roof overhangs. Such quality items, said Mason, actually cut down on house maintenance costs. Likewise, complete kitchens were okayed for houses over $12,000. Where builders in the past had to leave out appliances because they ran the initial...
...return to the income requirements before World War II. Builders have long agitated for the change. Last March HOUSE & HOME ran an editorial calling FHA's income requirements "unreasonable and arbitrary," pointed out that FHA was encouraging consumers to buy inferior houses. As a result, FHA Commissioner Norman Mason appointed an industry advisory committee, whose recommendations led to the new standards...
According to its chairman, Mason Hammond '25, Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature, the committee's functions are broadly defined, and it will "swim around in all directions," studying ways by which the University can interest its students in teaching careers...
When he sat down two years ago to turn his recollections of Mason City into rhythm and song, Willson found the going slow. His trouble: too many memories and too many tunes. He rewrote the whole show, he vows, at least 20 times, turned out 38 songs that eventually were whittled down to 17. Finally he found he did his best work about 5 a.m. "I'd wake up and lie there and suddenly something would come clear," he says...
Died. Melvin Maynard Johnson, 86, topflight Mason, dean (1935-43) of the Boston University Law School; in Boston. A veteran Masonic official, he was Illustrious Sovereign Grand Commander, Supreme Council, 33rd Degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rites of Freemasonry for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the U.S.A. from...