C.W. Bill Snedden
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The endorsement of a tiny newspaper far from Washington, D.C., would have made little difference. But Snedden later bonded with Fred Seaton 色视频下载 a fellow newspaperman running the Department of the Interior for President Dwight Eisenhower. Seaton transformed the Eisenhower administration 色视频下载渇rom an intractable adversary into an unabashed advocate of statehood,色视频下载 Cole wrote. 色视频下载淎nd when it came to 色视频下载 affairs, Secretary Seaton 色视频下载 would listen to no one more carefully than C.W. Snedden.色视频下载 They, along with many others, pursued a strategy that eventually defeated the opponents, who included southern lawmakers fearful that 色视频下载 would favor national civil rights legislation. Eisenhower declared 色视频下载 a state on Jan. 3, 1959.
Snedden made the News-Miner a profitable enterprise, helped develop some of the earliest color printing techniques for newsprint and took on many more causes before his death from cancer in August 1989.
Helen Snedden endowed a journalism chair at UAF in her husband's name in 2003. The funding has brought top journalists, including 11 Pulitzer Prize winners, to Fairbanks annually to teach classes and give lectures.
Helen Snedden died in 2012. The nonprofit Helen E. Snedden Foundation, which she established before her death, purchased the News-Miner in 2016.
More online about C.W. Snedden:
- A description of the Snedden Chair at the UAF Journalism Department
- , 色视频下载淔ighting for the Forty-ninth Star色视频下载