The World Wide Webb Miller
Description:
.0160a: 8.75 x 7.5" Typed communique re Webb Miller's reporting of the Italian front to the United Press. Paper ragged and torn on all edges.
.0160b: 8 x 5" message from Furay re Webb Miller's Friday story.
.0160c: 8.5 x 11" letter from Hugh Baillie, President of United Press Associations, from Madrid, to Webb Miller c/o Rome bureau, praising him for his coverage of the Italian advance into Abyssinia.
Date:
1935
Notes:
Webb Miller was born in 1891 in Sumnerville/Pokagon, graduated from Dowagiac High School around 1910, and went on to become a journalist in Chicago. He covered the Pancho Villa insurrection at the Mexican border in 1915 and landed a job at the United Press. He stayed with UP and covered World War I, Gandhi, Ethiopian War, Spanish Civil War, and came to head UP Europe. He died a mysterious death in 1940.
The collection came from the donor's niece, who received the collection from Webb Miller's daughter—in—law Helene MIller.
Object ID:
2007—0012.0160a—c
Object Name:
Correspondence
People:
Miller, Webb
Search Terms:
Webb MIller