Word: cub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pulitzers-Of all legends in U. S. journalism, that of Joseph Pulitzer shines brightest and most familiar. Dull indeed is the cub reporter who cannot recite the story of the gangling, weak-eyed boy of 17 who, though no "poor immigrant," shrewdly slipped overboard from his ship in Boston Harbor and swam ashore to collect for himself the bounty on his Civil War enlistment; of the taller, young ex-soldier who rode brakerods from New York to St. Louis, in whose friendly German atmosphere he made his way as a journalist; of how he married Kate Davis, daughter...
...following officers: president, Martin Charles Stark '33, of Washington, D. C.; secretary-treasurer, Edgar Jacobs Davis '29, of Merrimac. After the business of the meeting was attended to, the members proceeded to play the game after which the club is named. Three new sets were presented to the cub by G. S. Parker of Salem, who introduced the game last spring after ten years of experimentation. It is planned to model the organization upon the procedure established by the Chess Club...
...Commercial Tribune was Murat Halstead, holding office in the 1860's to 1880's when the paper was the Commercial and the Commercial Gazette. He it was who so embittered the South by his editorials during the Reconstruction days, who gave William Howard Taft a job as cub reporter covering courts, who for 50 years was a power in the G.O.P., a sponsor and later an enemy of the celebrated Cox Gang, later a supporter of Mark Hanna. Most distinctive outward feature of the Enquirer is its curious, archaic style of headlines, suggestive of British and reminiscent...
Hovering near Death, the Prime Minister received three blood transfusions, the first from his younger son Iwane, the second and third from his secretary Yadanji Nakajima. When the Lion was asked if his elder cub Kazuhiko should be summoned from his banking job in Manhattan, he replied: "No, Kazuhiko has work...
...enemies: The entire press, three ex-Governors, Standard Oil, Choctaw Cub (N. O. Ring), preachers, priests, rabbis...