Word: cub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressional Monopoly Investigation committee-Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold and SECommissioner Jerome Frank-asked Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. to suggest a program for the investigators. To nervous, cocky Adolf Berle (rhymes with surly), this assignment was what a murder trial is to a cub reporter. Early in July Mr. Berle completed his "Memorandum of Suggestions." It was not quite the sort of thing New Dealers hand out to the press, but last week it finally did get into print...
...cub among the lately lionized workers of the U. S. is the white-collar man. Because organized Labor long accepted his view that he was not of the overalled proletariat, he could, even two years ago, hardly have found a union had he wanted to. Since then C.I.O's top white-collar union, United Office & Professional Workers of America has boomed from 6.000 to 45,000 members...
...diligent students of baseball knew that Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, multimillionaire Cub owner whose family had sunk millions in the club, was not satisfied. Owner Wrigley wanted his team in first place. He wanted the Cubs as animated as the pixies that perform on his famed Broadway electric sign. To discover the reason for their failure to be so, he had hired a University of Illinois professor to psychoanalyze the team. After studying the professor's findings, P. K. Wrigley, Andover-bred, decided last week that a new spark plug was needed...
With Huntington Gruening '38 as passenger, Stevens took off from Norwood Airport the other day bound for Exeter, New Hampshire, where he was going to review the sights of his school-hood. His little Taylor cub plane took him safely there, and he set her down back of the football stadium. After his day of memories Stevens and Gruening climbed back in the ship and took...
...solemn sap, scrawny, cartoon-faced Homer Zigler was a 23-year-old, $1-a-week cub reporter on a Buffalo newspaper when he decided to become a novelist. But first, said Homer, "to the purpose of preparing myself for that career," he would keep a journal. "The Great American Novel-" is the journal-a satire that starts off by tagging after Ring Lardner, turns off on an oily road marked Irony-&-Pity, skids into caricature, and comes to a happy halt as the June choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club-as did Author Davis' first novel...