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William Byron Colver

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915: 1123: 33: 899: 860: 802: 730: 658: 618: 570: 534: 496: 433: 397: 353: 1276: 141: 235:(then Scripps-McRae) from 1898 to 1900. He helped organize the Newspaper Editorial Alliance and served as its general manager from 1907 to 1912 and also served as editor. In his obituary, it was noted his editorials were influential in highlighting the forest exploitation in the 277:
In 1919, he formed the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance (then Scripps-McRae Press Association). He later served as general editorial director for Scripps-Howard. He retired in 1924. An editorialist, he believed
266:. He served as chairman of the commission from 1918 to 1919. He left the commission in 1920. During his tenure, he led a number of fights including the "stolen files" case against Chicago meatpackers. During 1402: 282:
would become competitive with standard newspapers. In a letter in April 1911, he wrote the editorial column was the "personality of the paper, its incarnation into human being".
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In 1897, Colver married Pauline Simmons of Cleveland. He had one daughter, Pollyanne. He was friends with Cleveland mayor Tom L. Johnson.
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History and Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Noble of Westfield, Massachusetts
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newspapers in Minnesota and Nebraska until 1917. He was also publisher of the
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This article about an American businessperson born in the 1870s is a
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He died on May 28, 1926, at his home at 3303 18th Street N.W. in
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He was buried at Fort Lincoln Cemetery. His widow died in 1964.
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and leading to the resignation of Secretary of the Interior
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THE VALIANT RUSSIANS POT TWO HARMLESS CHINK FERRY TENDERS
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William Byron Colver was born on September 26, 1870, in
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American business biography, 19th-century birth stubs
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American journalist and public official (1870–1926)
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Wellington, Ohio
Washington, D.C.
Ohio State University

Federal Trade Commission
Scripps‐Howard newspapers
War Industries Board
World War I
Wellington, Ohio
Ohio State University
Cleveland
Sandusky
The Cleveland Leader
Cleveland Press
Russo-Japanese War
war correspondent
Manchuria
Scripps‐Howard newspapers
Pinchot–Ballinger controversy
Richard A. Ballinger
Tom L. Johnson
Woodrow Wilson
Federal Trade Commission
World War I
War Industries Board
tabloid journalism
Washington, D.C.

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