The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-13

 ROBERT I. SMALL. Designated by Melville E. Stone as one of the four or five graphic news writers of Amer ica, has joined the staff of
The Birmingham Age-Herald
and will cover the activities of President-Elect
 Harding
beginning December 18th, and until inauguration.

until inauguration.
 Robert T. Small, during the last republican administration, travelled more than 90,000 miles with President Taft, and his acquaintance among repub- licans fits him especially for the Important newspaper tasks at Marion, or wherever the confer ence with the l Iesident-elect may be held.
 Back in the Roosevelt admin istration, MT. Small frequently accompanied "T. R." on his overland travels and on the presidential yacht May flower
 During fourteen years of service with The Associated Press, MT. Small covered as signments in nearly every part of the world. During these fourteen years and in his subse- quent activities he has been in touch with every big news event and every big personality of the period. His reportorial experience and reputation are world wide, while on the execu- tive side of newspaper work he served for four years as super- intendent of the southern divis- ion of the Associated Press.
 It was Robert Small who met MT. Bryan on his return to this country in 1906, and in the same year covered the first gubernatorial campaign of Charles E. Hughes.
 It was Robert Small, who in 1907, covered the famous Thaw trial in New York, and the Haywood -' Mover Pettibone trials in Boise, Idaho. It was Robert Small who wrote the vivid description of the American battleship fleet on it's trip around the world in the same year. His story was of such striking merit that The Associated Press broke a life long precedent and sent note on it's wires telling editors that Small was the author of the classic they were inquiring about.
 It was Robert Small who first wrote of the split in the G. o. P. and the birth of the Progressive Party in 1912.
 It was Robert Small who covered the first convention of the Progressives and who, with the exception of 1916, when he was in Europe, has covered every national political conven- tion of the two great parties during the last sixteen years.
 It was Robert Small, who in 1916, succeeded Frederick Pal mer as the offical American correspondent of the British battlefront in France, where he was stationed with Philip Gibbs, Perceval Gibbon and other noted correspondents. Small wrote some of the most brilliant accounts of the later Somme offensives and the oper- ations at Vimy Ridge and Ar ,:as. His work attracted nation wide attention despite the anonymity of The Associated Press.
 It was Robert Small, who in 1917, met General Pershing when he stepped ashore in France and who covered the American Expeditionary Forces until his return to America in tl91S. when he became head of the Washington Bureau of The Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Mir. Small is not a partisan. He has travelled with Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, and will now com plete the circle of, latter-day chief executives by reporting the doings of President-elect Harding.
 Acquaintance counts in get ting news. Robert Small has enjoyed the friendship and con- ,fidence of public men in all parties for the last twenty years.
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