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Allen Luther Sangree, also as Allan or Alan == Life == Father: Milton H. Sangree, Mother: Jane E. Hudson. Born around 1878, most likely in the Harrisburg or Steelton Pennsylvania area〔 〕 Attended Gettysburg College (class of 1892)〔 〕 〔 〕〔 〕〔Some early references say Pennsylvania College, which was the original name for Gettysburg College.〕〔Oral Sangree family history has it that Milton H. Sangree placed great importance in attending college. 〕 Member of the Sigma Chi Theta fraternity〔 〕 On the staff of the New York Sun some time around 1896〔 With the New York World as a correspondent traveling to Africa reporting on the trouble between Great Britain and the South Africa Republic prior to the Boer war.〔 He reported for the Collier's Weekly during the Boer War〔 〕 as well as for Cosmopolitan〔 〕〔 〕 Started writing as one of the featured baseball writers for the New York Evening World on March 11, 1905〔 〕 Married Kate Bradley (1888–1952) on November 4, 1905 On October 2, 1908 Allen Sangree was asked by William McMutrie Speer〔 Information about William McMutrie Speer's papers 〕 (a member of the editorial staff of the World) via the city editor George Carteret, to locate some Panamanians who had recently came to town with a possible connection to William Nelson Cromwell and the Panama Canal. Allen was unable to locate them, reported back to the editorial staff with no story and the assignment was crossed off. However Allen's investigation did appear to have stirred up William Nelson Cromwell's PR staff who approached Caleb Van Hamm (the managing editor) and "demanded ... what the World meant by getting after ''his boss'' without giving him a look-in."〔 〕〔 It appears that this series of events ended with the libel suite against Joseph Pulitzer, Caleb Van Hamm and Robert Hunt Lyman of the New York World as well as the World itself, and the Press Publishing Company for libel against William Nelson Cromwell, J.P. Morgan, Douglas Robinson, Charles P. Taft, Elihu Root, and Theodore Roosevelt. The case went to the US Supreme Court with a unanimous ruling in favor of the New York World See also for some commentary on the actual libel case. 〕 Died March 2, 1924 in Trenton NJ after having been hospitalized for a breakdown two years earlier〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Allen Sangree」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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