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...chosen last year to be the State Department's liaison man with Senator Nye's munitions investigation. Long before the President's proclamation last week, he had his office running smoothly. With his assistant and fellow-Pnncetonian. Charles Woodruff Vost, a 28-year-old State Department cub, he it was who drafted the list of wartime contraband which President Roosevelt charged him with controlling. Mortars, machine guns and methyldichlorarsine are obvious munitions of war. But what about such equally useful, basic implements of war as steel, copper, cotton? In case of hostilities, would an embargo be placed...
...exactly the same thing last year. Betting Commissioner Jack Doyle supplied a shrewd diagnosis: the Giants with brilliant pitchers, good fielding but no remarkable batting power, rarely win or lose by a large margin and four months of close games wear them out before the season is over. The Cubs, almost ignored in pre-season pennant predictions, were last week still scorned by the Cardinals and the Giants. Meanwhile a Cub pitcher named Bill Lee took first place in the League pitching averages with 15 victories, 5 defeats...
...cub on Chicago's City Press Association, Howey was walking to City Hall to cover a routine meeting one winter day in 1903, when he saw smoke seeping from the Iroquois Theatre. Up through a sidewalk grating crawled a blackened figure in stage costume, then another & another. They gasped a few words about the carnage inside. Cub Howey dashed into a saloon next door, telephoned his editor (who was certain Howey was drunk), paid the bartender $5 to tie up the telephone, one of the few in the neighborhood. When the day was over, boxcar headlines were screaming...
NORMAN THOMAS New York City Pulitzer Cub...
...story about Randolph Apperson Hearst's debut as a cub reporter on his father's San Francisco Examiner (TIME, March 18), reminds me of young Joe Pulitzer's experience under Charlie Chapin on the New York Evening World...