Word: cubbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story on General Walker [Nov. 5] contains two misstatements of fact: 1) the AP cub reporter charged Walker with "encouraging the riots," 2) "segregationist" Walker sued AP. The two verdicts Walker won were based on false charges by AP that Walker "assumed command" of a mob of 1,000 people and "led a charge" against U.S. marshals. If Walker had been charged only with "encouraging riots," the verdicts would be improper. Under the facts, as proved in court, the verdicts were proper. Moreover, Walker is not a "segregationist...
...from a Socialist Party news paper that the price of one Oerlikon would pay for 125 new workers' apartments. More to the point, however, was the fact that although the Oerlikon is deadly against low-flying planes, its maximum range is 12,000 feet-which even a Piper Cub can get over...
...bustling, matriarchal mother could ever really cope with him. His elder brother Gerard (later president of General Electric) took him in hand, tried to infuse a little discipline into this wayward spirit. Instead, Herbert strayed into journalism, then one of the more undisciplined professions, and eventually surfaced as a cub reporter for the New York Herald...
During the 1962 race battles on the University of Mississippi campus, an Associated Press cub reporter wrote a dispatch that charged former Major General Edwin A. Walker with encouraging the riots. Segregationist Walker sued the A.P., won a $500,000 verdict from a Fort Worth jury. Last week, in Shreveport, La., Walker won again. He had sued the A.P. and the New Orleans Times-Picayune for $2,225,000; the jury awarded...
...summer vacations he worked for Publisher Millard Cope's Marshall News Messenger as a $25-a-week reporter. With his first byline, he dropped the y from his given name, Billy, has never taken it back. Not all of the paper's hands found the scholarly-looking cub a welcome addition. "Just what we needed," grumbled one. "A part-time college boy with neither whisky nor whiskers-one you can't even cuss in front...