When and where was Herbert Bayard Swope born?
Herbert Bayard Swope entered the world on the 5th of January 1882, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Herbert Bayard Swope entered the world on the 5th of January 1882, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Herbert Bayard Swope created the modern op-ed page by replacing book reviews and obituaries with opinions starting in 1921.
Herbert Bayard Swope won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1922 for a twenty-one day crusade against the Ku Klux Klan that began in October 1921.
Herbert Bayard Swope coined the phrase Cold War while serving as personal consultant to the U.S. Secretary of War from 1942 until 1946.
Herbert Bayard Swope won over four hundred seventy thousand dollars in a single poker game against opponents including an oil baron and a steel magnate.
The waterfront estate known as Land's End owned by Herbert Bayard Swope was demolished in 2011 after being sold for seventeen point five million dollars in 2005.