Background
Denny, Harold Norman was born on March 11, 1889 in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. Son of Charles Oscar and Lily (Wisner) Denny.
Denny, Harold Norman was born on March 11, 1889 in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. Son of Charles Oscar and Lily (Wisner) Denny.
Student Drake U., 1907-1911, granted Bachelor of Arts degree nunc pro tune, 1939.
Employed in reportorial and editorial capacities on Des Moines (Iowa) Register, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis (Minnesota) Tribune, New York Tribune, Chicago Tribune (Paris Edition) and other newspapers, 1913-1922. With New York Times since 1922, assigned to crossing of Sahara and exploration of Hoggar with Franco-American Archæol. Mission, 1925, Moroccan War, 1926, American tour of Queen Marie of Roumania, 1926, Lindbergh’s Central American flight, 1928, Nicaraguan crisis, 1927-1928, Forbes Commission to Haiti, 1930, Cuban crisis, 1930-1931, Pennsylvania coal strike, 1933, Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935, Moscow correspondent, 1934-1939, covered Moscow treason trials and Soviet purge, 1936-1938.
German investiture of Czecho-Slovakia, 1939.
Served as enlisted man, infantry, United States: Army, World War I. Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Jean Bullitt Lowry, June 5, 1936.