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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Melville Elijah Stone, 80, general manager (1893-1921) and counselor of the Associated Press; of hardening of the arteries; in his Manhattan home...
...years old. He had outlived his two sons, had lived "from the lightning rod to the radio," as he said last year. He had been fighting death since Christmas Day. The only book he ever wrote was Fifty Years a Journalist. But his monument, the Associated Press, is a great unbound volume, an unceasing history attuned alike to hamlet and metropolis...
...after a brief banking interlude, Melville Elijah Stone became general manager of the Associated Press of Illinois, Inc. and soon made it dominant in a field which had been confused by three conflicting news services. The present Associated Press was incorporated in 1900. By sending Associated Press correspondents abroad and by making alliances with European news agencies, General Manager Stone gave the U. S. more complete and impartial foreign news. Previously, most of the despatches had come through London and hence were British-colored...
Nonpartisanship was almost a mania with General Manager Stone. If he had political opinions, no one else in the Associated Press knew them. When his son Herbert went down with the German-torpedoed Lusitania, he insisted on A. P. neutrality...
...unrelenting insistence upon impartiality, accuracy and absolute honesty in news created standards that have become universal in American journalism, and for that all Americans stand tremendously in his debt," said Karl August Bickel, president of the rival United Press...