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William
Allen White bought the Emporia Gazette
in 1895. His 1896 editorial "What's the
Matter with Kansas?" made he and his paper
famous, and he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for
his 1922 editorial "To an Anxious
Friend." |
Samuel
Medary was the editor of the Ohio
Statesman, in which he is said to have
originated the cry of "Fifty-four-forty, or
fight" in relation to the Oregon boundary
dispute. He served as Territorial Governor of
Minnesota and of Kansas. |
TASS
The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union was
founded in 1925 as the central information agency
of the country. It enjoyed
"exclusive right to gather and distribute
information outside the Soviet Union, as well as
the right to distribute foreign and domestic
information within the Soviet Union, and manage
the news agencies of the Soviet republics." |
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