Word: fremont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surprised indeed were newspapermen when, six months ago, the Chicago Daily News whose late Editor Victor Fremont Lawson with Melville Elijah Stone developed the Associated Press, enhanced its foreign news with A. P.'s "opposition." United Press. Last week came another event. Simultaneous with the announcement that United Press had extended its service into its 18th language (Icelandic )', the New York Herald Tribune made known that henceforth it would use full U. P. service, domestic and foreign. With its own overseas bureaus and the A. P. and U. P. the Herald Tribune was putting itself in a position...
...struck upon the novel idea of showing ''Honest Abe" as an evil Negro. In a delicate line drawing Volck depicted Lincoln as a Negroid puppet-master capering on a stage, surrounded by his puppets who are seen to be Cabinet Members Chase, Cameron and Welles and Generals Fremont, Scott and McLellan. When, as President-elect in 1861, Lincoln journeyed to Washington, receiving great acclaim in the northern cities, he was warned to forego a visit to Democratic Baltimore. Friends commissioned Allan Pinkerton, spy (later founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency), to investigate. His report influenced Lincoln to make...