Background
Bell, Edward Price was born on March 1, 1869 in Parke Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Addison William and Elizabeth Nancy (Price) Bell.
Bell, Edward Price was born on March 1, 1869 in Parke Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Addison William and Elizabeth Nancy (Price) Bell.
Wabash College, Indiana, 1894-1897, honorary Master of Arts, 1900, Doctor of Literature, 1919. Doctor of Laws, Northwestern University, 1928.
Entered newspaper work at Terre Haute, Indiana. Reported Chippewa outbreak in Northern Minnesota, 1898, and race riots in North Carolina, same year. Exposed, in The Chicago Record, jury bribing in Cook County, Illinois, and legislative corruption at Springfield.
London correspondent Chicago Daily News, 1900-1923, covering all great events in England during that time. Interviewed 5 British Cabinet ministers on German-World War. First correspondent who ever interviewed a British secretary of state for foreign affairs.
Extensive experience with British fleet, armies, and flying services. Lectured widely to boys of public schools in England, on importance of Anglo-American unity for preservation of free instns., and throughout the Middle West, on the duty of America to participate resolutely in the effort to organize a stable world peace. Devoted 1924 and 1925 to interviewing leading men of various countries, including President Coolidge.
Marx, Mussolini, Poincare, Ramsay MacDonald, Mackenzie King, Kato, Shidehara, Tang-Shao-yi, Governor General Wood, Senator Osmena, Senator Quezon, and others, on international and interracial problems, especially those centering in the Pacific Ocean. Accompanied Herbert Hoover on his Latin-American good-will tour, 1928-1929. Attacked British-American bickering in the English and American press and originated the idea of a conference in Washington of the heads of English-speaking states (Premier Ramsay MacDonald and President Herbert Hoover) to lay foundations of permanent peace in the English-speaking world, 1929.
Toured world (1934-1935) for Literary Digest, interviewing at length premiers and foreign ministers of principal countries of Asia and Europe, also Pope Pius XI, on problem of world peace. Political editor, Saturday Spectator, Terre Haute, Indiana, since 1941.
Served as president Association American Correspondents in London. Member Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Gamma Mu. Member Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Delta Chi.
Clubs: Pilgrims, American, American Luncheon (London).
Married Mary Alice Mills, December 21, 1897. Children: Alice Elizabeth Price, Edward Price, John Addison Price.