Word: cub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Louis Stark of the New York Times, and, until this year, most lists could easily end with him. He made Labor news his career when most papers buried such stories back among the want ads and comic strips, when his current crop of colleagues were school boys or cub reporters. Yet he is not old (49). He began work in New York with the City News Association in 1912, went to the Times in 1917. Since then he has made himself so well informed on Labor that both William Green and John Lewis have on occasion turned...
...General William McCraw filed with the Supreme Court placed the gross value of Colonel Green's estate at $44,384,500. This may be as much as $50,000,000 short of the final figure, for as yet nobody knows exactly how much Hetty Green's big cub did leave. According to Texas arithmetic, the Federal Government will collect $20,812,905 in inheritance taxes. Other tax bills: $7,132,000 (New York); $5,809,000 (Massachusetts); $5,335,000 (Florida); $5,326,000 (Texas). Total asked by Federal and State Governments: $44,414,905. If administration...
...stared glumly at the concrete pacing. And his grey felt hat, the object of our little one's mocking attention, was twice too big and smacked of not very post post-war days. As he approached her ambush, she set herself; then with the rapidity of a lion cub, she rose and struck; but, alas--a split second too late. The hat remained solemnly intact. "Damn it!" she howled, her pretty little eyes gleaming. "I missed...
...these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over 1,000 of which have been sold. In the first three days, sales of ten more Cubs were reported at $1,270 each. Similar success attended the rival Taylorcraft. Last week, Horace Keane Co. had a slick white Ace Monoplane with a Ford V8, out to rival Arrow...
...blue field, proclaimed itself as Look, The Monthly Picture Magazine. Also on the cover, a convict, Franklin Roosevelt, an actress and an x-ray of a woman's legs fought for attention with a large portrait of Germany's General Goring bottle-feed-ing his lion cub...