CBS insisted that Mason be given a love interest to placate daytime soap opera audiences, but Gardner flatly refused to take Mason in that direction.

Lee graduated second in his class behind Charles Mason, who resigned from the Army a year after graduation, and Lee did not incur any demerits during his four-year course of study — five of his 45 classmates earned a similar distinction.

Until 2000, before being eligible for membership in the Shrine, a person had to complete either the Scottish Rite or York Rite degrees of Masonry, but now any Master Mason can join.

Recognizing that any surface approach will be seen by Hummel's men, FBI Director James Womack ( John Spencer ) is forced to turn to federal prisoner John Mason ( Sean Connery ), a former MI6 Agent and SAS Captain who has been illegally detained for decades by Womack and his predecessors.

By the mid-20th century, some speakers applied the word to any American born north of the Mason – Dixon Line, though usually with a specific focus still on New England.

Generally speaking those who have only received the Entered Apprentice degree are considered Freemasons, but hold limited privileges until they attain the Master Mason degree ; under UGLE only a Master Mason will receive a Grand Lodge certificate, which may be demanded by any other Lodge he wishes to visit.

If a Master Mason is dropped from the rolls for non-payment of dues, under most circumstances he may be immediately reinstated in good standing simply by paying his current dues as well as any back dues owed, although in many jurisdictions there is a requirement to ballot for re-admission.

* Granny Get Your Gun ( 1940 ), extremely loosely based on The Case of the Dangerous Dowager ( 1937 ) and not containing Perry Mason or any similar character.

While Benjamin Franklin was a Mason, he was the only member of any of the various Great Seal committees definitively known to be so, and his ideas were not adopted.

The group's executive director, David Brickner, stated in the letter to Mason that he wanted " to convey my sincere apologies for any distress that you felt over our tract.

The stones may be a few to a few hundred feet east or west of the point Mason and Dixon thought they were ; in any event, the line drawn from stone to stone forms the legal boundary.

However those families living on the east side of the Mystic River were unable make any use of the Pequot Trail, like Miner and Mason, and desired for the creation of a bridge to connect the two.

Mason appointed Brigadier-General Joseph Brown of the Third U. S. Brigade to be ready to strike against any Ohio trespasser.

Mason took his advice and wrote General Brown to hold off on any display of force.

Mason would also deliver to the Ohio courts any individual Lucas requested.

The remaining members of Traffic began a project with Mick Weaver ( a. k. a. Wynder K. Frog ), the short-lived Mason, Capaldi, Wood and Frog ( later shortened to Wooden Frog ), which played a few live dates and recorded some BBC sessions, but broke up before releasing any formal recordings.

Mason argued that the Nazi leaders were deeply haunted by the November Revolution of 1918, and was most unwilling to see any fall in working class living standards out of the fear that it might provoke another November Revolution.

Dermott then proceeded to a reasoned explanation of why a new Mason should not join a " Moderns " lodge, since their amended passwords would not be recognised by any of the other Grand Lodges which at that time existed.

Shortly thereafter, the meteorite now called Allan Hills 81005 was sent to Washington, DC, where Smithsonian Institution geochemist Brian Mason recognized that the sample was unlike any other known meteorite and resembled some rocks brought back from the Moon by the Apollo program.

In any event, if challenged, Eaton could have referred to previous under-aged Senators Armistead Mason or Henry Clay.

Harvard law professor Theophilus Parsons wrote, “ I am just as certain that Wilkes had a legal right to take Mason and Slidell from the Trent, as I am that our government has a legal right to blockade the port of Charleston .” Caleb Cushing, a prominent Democrat, and former Attorney General ( under Franklin Pierce ) concurred: “ In my judgment, the act of Captain Wilkes was one which any and every self-respecting nation must and would have done by its own sovereign right and power, regardless of circumstances .” Richard Henry Dana, Jr., considered an expert on maritime law, justified the detention because the envoys were engaged “ solely a mission hostile to the United States ,” making them guilty of “ treason within our municipal law .” Edward Everett, a former minister to Great Britain and a former Secretary of State, also argued that “ the detention was perfectly lawful their confinement in Fort Warren will be perfectly lawful .”

Palmerston emphasized that seizing the Confederates would be “ highly inexpedient in every way could view it ” and a few more Confederates in Britain would not “ produce any change in policy already adopted .” Palmerston questioned the presence of Adger in British waters, and Adams assured Palmerston that he had read Marchand ’ s orders ( Marchand had visited Adams while in Great Britain ) which limited him to seizing Mason and Slidell from a Confederate ship.

Similarly, James Mason wrote, " Fairly tried and found wanting, the Sicilian has now scarcely any standing as a first-class defence.

Mason made the dramatic shift personally from viewing church congregations as utterly devoid of any propensity for singing to one in which he vigorously promoted congregational singing and eliminated all professional musicians save the organist.

* 1637 – Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.

* May 26 – Pequot War: A band of English settlers under Captain John Mason, and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies, set fire to a fortified Pequot village near the Mystic River in what is later known as the Mystic massacre.

A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 / Written by Major John Mason, a principal actor therein, as then chief captain and commander of Connecticut forces ; With an introduction and some explanatory notes by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Prince ( Boston: Printed & sold by.

* Orr, Charles ed., History of the Pequot War: The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardiner ( Cleveland, 1897 ).

When the military forces of the two colonies, led by John Mason and John Underhill, launched an assault on the Pequot stronghold at Mystic, a significant portion of the Pequot population was killed.

A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 / Written by Major John Mason, a principal actor therein, as then chief captain and commander of Connecticut forces ; With an introduction and some explanatory notes by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Prince ( Boston: Printed & sold by.

In May 1637, captains John Underhill and John Mason led a retaliatory mission through Narragansett land along with their allies, the Narragansett and Mohegan, and struck the Pequot settlement in Mystic.

Mason set fire to eighty homes, killing 600 – 700 Pequot in an hour.

After John Mason ’ s victorious encounter with the Indians, the King of England began to assess the conquered Pequot territory.

John Mason, one of the captains who led the colonists against the Pequot, had previously been granted on the eastern banks of the Mystic River.

In the following year, during the Pequot War, he permitted John Mason to lead his Connecticut expedition against the Pequot Indians through Narraganset country.

Joining with Mohegan allies and Connecticut militia under Captain John Mason, they attacked the Pequot fortified village near modern Mystic.

Mason set out with 90 militia and 70 Mohegan warriors under Uncas to punish the Pequot.

Underhill and Mason proceeded to the principal Pequot village, near present-day Groton, but the Pequot chose to defend their fortified village.

Justifying his conduct later, Mason declared that the attack against the Pequot was the act of a God who " laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to scorn making Pequot as a fiery Oven.

A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 / Written by Major John Mason, a principal actor therein, as then chief captain and commander of Connecticut forces ; With an introduction and some explanatory notes by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Prince ( Boston: Printed & sold by.

* Orr, Charles ed., History of the Pequot War: The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardiner ( Cleveland, 1897 ).