Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidents, twelve have been known Masons: George Washington (Past Master), James Monroe, Andrew Jackson (Grand Master), James K. Polk (Royal Arch), James Buchanan (Past Master), Andrew Johnson (32nd Degree), James A. Garfield (14th Degree), William McKinley (Knight Templar), Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Warren G. Harding (33rd Degree), Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd Degree). (Whether Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were Masons is a moot question...
...were turning from liquor to labor rackets. Mild, mannerly Mr. Browne (no gangster) was a labor careerist who had just been elected president of A. F. of L.'s union for theatre no-collar-men: the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes. His assistant and bodyguard was one William Bioff, whose record in Chicago included numerous arrests, one conviction for pandering, two efforts to muscle in on Chicago unions, several published references to him as a minor South Side gunman...
Richard King Mellon, 40, successor to his uncle, the late Andrew William Mellon, as head of the Mellon financial empire, has plenty of chicks but no child. Last week he and his 29-year-old wife, Constance Prosser McCaulley Mellon, adopted a two-months-old boy. To newshawks who begged for the largesse of a look at the child, Father Mellon gave short change...
...Whaling Company, sent a small "floating factory" to the Australian fisheries. In 1937 testy, Danish-born Hans J. Isbrandtsen of New York City (Isbrandtsen-Moller Co., shipping), founded Western Operating Corp. with the help of Norwegian-born Texas Corp. Board Chairman "Cap" Torkild Rieber, Danish-born General Motors President William S. Knudsen and others. For nearly $1,000,000 he bought the 12, 395-ton former U. S. Navy auxiliary ship Ulysses, converted it into one of the most modern whale refineries afloat and dispatched it to the world's richest whaling grounds-the bitter, bustling, controversial Antarctic...
...Charles William Mayo, William Randolph Lovelace...