In 1906, he purchased control of the Publishers Press, a small news service in the East, and merged the three services the following year to form the United Press Associations. The news agency’s name...

In 1906, he purchased control of the Publishers Press, a small news service in the East, and merged the three services the following year to form the United Press Associations. The news agency’s name was changed to United Press International on May 16, 1958, when its facilities were joined with those of William Randolph Hearst’s International News Service and International News Photos.