Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
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Biographical Note
Descriptive Summary
Title: Frank E. (Earl) Mason Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1915-1975
Collection number: XX007
Creator:
Mason, Frank E., 1893-1979
Collection Size:
4 manuscript boxes, 7 envelopes
(2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, journalistic dispatches, and other material, relating to German and Soviet politics and diplomacy
in the interwar period, and to Allied military administration of Germany at the end of World War II. Includes a copy of the
logbook of the submarine that sank the Lusitania, 1915, and correspondence with Georgii Chicherin and Karl von Wiegand.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English and
German.
Administrative Information
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Collection open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Frank Earl Mason Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Access Points
William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941.
Lusitania (Steamship)
Denazification.
Prisoners of war.
World politics.
World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918--Peace.
World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons.
Germany.
Germany--History--1945-1955.
Germany--Politics and government--20th century.
Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union--Foreign relations.
Journalists.
Bryant, Louise.
Chicherin, Georgii Vasil'evich, 1872-1936.
Dryander, Ernst H., 1843-1922.
Eisenhower, Milton Stover, 1899-
Strong, Anna Louise.
Von Wiegand, Karl H.
Wilhelm, Crown Prince of the German Empire and of Prussia, 1882-1951.
Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) Control Council.
Essener Nationalzeitung
Le Petit Journal
Biographical Note
| 1893 |
Born, Milwaukee, Wis. |
| 1918 |
Intelligence officer, 9th Infantry, U.S. Army
Instructor, Army Intelligence School, Langres, France
|
| 1919 |
Chief censor advocate, G.H.Q., Gen. Staff, German occupied area |
| |
Military observer, Berlin (March-July) |
| |
Assistant military attaché, American Legation, The Hague; American Embassy, Berlin |
| 1920-1921 |
Berlin correspondent, International News Service |
| 1921 |
London manager |
| 1922-1926 |
Paris manager |
| 1927 |
New York, business manager |
| 1928ff. |
General manager and president |
| 1931-1945 |
Vice-president of NBC |
| 1941-1944 |
Special assistant to secretary of the Navy |
| 1946 |
Member of the Food Emergency Mission |