Background
Kruckman, Arnold was born on November 13, 1880 in at sea. Son of Rudolph Godlove and Anna (Muller) Kruckman.
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Arnold Kruckman
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Education public and private schools and by traveling
Career
Corresponding Spanish-American War, Russo-Jap. War, World War I; served on staff Saint Louis Republic and Star. Company-founder International News Service.
Musical editor Burr-McIntosh Monthly, 1907-1911.
First aero editor, staff New York World, first newspaper writer so appointed to any newspaper staff in the world. Aeronautical. expert for Hearst publications for 3 years.
Organized the cross-country flights in the United States prior to 1914. United States commissioner at large, San Francisco Exposition, 1915, chief of aeronautics same, visiting most of the countries of the worls in the interests of the exposition.
Conceived, organized the plan for the first ’Round-the-World Flight.
An organizer, secretary-treasurer League of the Southwest (8 states), which planned and brought into being Boulder Dam. Director general Pacific South.W. Exposition, 1928, Doctorate. C. George Washington Bi-Centennial Commission, 1932. Organized Division of Information, Research, Reference and Library, Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933.
Organized American Newscasting Association, pioneer news distrbg. service, for radio stations, 1934.
Operates Kruckman News Service. Washington correspondent for Glass Digest.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American Geography Society. Member American Academy Political and Social Science, White House Corresponding Association, Imperial Japanese Aeronautical. Society (honorary), National Conference Business Paper editors.
Club: Overseas Writers.
Connections
Married Margaret Merry, June 1904 (died, 1946). Married second, Margaret Holden Naylor, November 10, 1949.
