Frank E. Mason was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on February 8, 1893. In 1915, he received his A.B. degree from the Ohio State University. From 1915 to 1916, he was an assistant editor of The American Boy. In 1918, after some months of service in the First World War, he became an Intelligence Officer for the 9th Infantry of the U. S. Army. Later in 1918, he became an instructor in the Army Intelligence School in Langres, France. In 1919, he was chief censor for the General Headquarters of the General Staff in the German occupied area. He also served, in 1919, as assistant military attache at the American Legation at The Hague and as military attaché at the American Embassy in Berlin.
Mr. Mason was a correspondent for the International News Service in 1920 and 1921, and was manager of the London office of that service in 1921. From 1922 to 1926, he was manager of the Paris office. In 1928, he became business manager of the New York office, and from 1928 to 1931, he was general manager and president of the service. He was a vice-president of the National Broadcasting Company from 1931 to 1945, and also director of the London Times-Mirror and president of London Press, Inc. From April, 1941, to July, 1944, he served as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox.
He was a member of Herbert Hoover's World-Wide Food Survey of 38 countries in 1946, and of Hoover's European Commission in 1947. He is currently a public relations counsel in New York City.
