biography
| name: |
Swope, Herbert Bayard
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| male
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| lived:
| (1882–1958)
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| biography:
| Journalist, born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. A World War 1 correspondent for the New York World, he won a 1917 Pulitzer Prize for his dispatches. He became executive editor of the newspaper in the 1920s, promoted numerous crusades, and developed a widely imitated Op Ed page. An associate of Bernard Baruch, he reportedly coined the phrase ‘cold war’, usually credited to Baruch. |
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