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Between the Chicago convention, the Nation
wide general election and the Washington
inauguration Mr.. Mcintyre has spent but little
time in the National Capital Hasty trips over
week ends from Albany or dash up from
Warm Springs, Ga, was about all the time
he could spare away from his chief, for there
were a thousand and one details to be worked
out in collaboration with the then President
elect and Mr. Howe. OF CHEEKY manner, coupled
with political sagacity, Mac" as he is known
to his associates, has a reputation Of being
card player extraordinary. He could summon
witnesses from the National Press Club to
testify on this point, for his proves in bridge
is proverbial among members of the Fourth
Estate Close friends affirm that he can keep
a mighty straight face in poker playing.
Admirals, generals and high and low in public
life in Washington are his friends. He has
particularly good knowledge Of the interior
working of the Navy Department, for the civil
ians he rubbed shoulders with during and after
the war have advanced to more responsible
posts and officers he knew as commanders IN
those pressing days are now captains and rear
admirals His knowledge of this phase Of ma
tional defense is not confined to the shore
establishments, for many times Mr. Mcintyre
has been ON the high seas on various types OF
ships of the service. He shares with IF. D.
R." keen love of the sea and the men who
operate on 1t.
THE call to public service has again come to
] Stephen T. Early. Time was, when the war
drums were rolling, he was one of the very
first in the National Capital to join the colOrs.
To that task, to this, he brought q wide
knowledge Of public men and affairs, for news
paper work and close contact with current
events fitted him eminently for the career that
was to follow.
Steve" Early, as he is popularity known to
his colleagues of the Fourth Estate.
already an Army Reserve officer when the World
War broke. In that fateful April, 1917, he was
ready for service. He attended the first officers
training camp at Fort Myer, Va, and is num-
bered among the first dozen men from the
National Capital to get into olive drab. He
graduated from the Fort Myer course and then
went on to the School Of Automatic Arms at
Fort Sill, Okla. There, too, he graduated from
the grueling course that was to shape men for
France.
His next assignment instructor at
Camp Lee, Va. He taught the rockies how to
handle automatic arms, machine guns and the
implements of war generally. He later was
assigned to the 317th Machine Gun Company.
With the 80th Division-some 1000 men gath
cred into the Army from Virginia, West Vir-
ginia and Western Pennsylvania Second Lieut..
Early drilled the raw mountaineers, whipping
them into trained troops.
So with his outfit he went overseas. In the
Argonne Forest his valor won for him promo
ton to first lieutenant and soon thereafter
he was dispatched for duty with Gen. Pershings
staff at general headquarters Of the American
Expeditionary Force at Chaunont, France He
was assigned to the Military Intelligence section.
under Maj. Gen. Dennis E. Nolan Suhse-
quently he went to Paris to help In the re-
organization Of the Stars and Stripes, omctal
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