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In 1883, while serving as advertising manager of the Cincinnati Post, McRae met thirty year old E. W. Scripps who had taken over as managing editor. The two began a business relationship that would last for many years.

In 1887, Scripps made Milton McRae became the managing director of the St. Louis Chronicle, a paper Scripps had purchased in 1880. In 1889, Scripps brought McRae on as a partner and in 1894, together with Scripps and his half-brother George, Milton A. McRae founded the Scripps-McRae League of Newspapers.

In 1907, the Scripps-McRae League of newspapers combined three regional press associations into the United Press Association.

McRae was President of the Detroit Board of Commerce from 1911-1912. He became the third National President Of The Boy Scouts Of America upon the death of James J. Storrow in 1926.


WORKS

  • Forty years in newspaperdom; the autobiography of a newspaper man, New York, Brentano's, 1924.



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REFERENCES

  • http://list.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9709d&L=aejmc&P=8144

  • http://www.library.ohiou.edu/archives/mss/mss117.html

  • http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729190,00.html

  • http://www.detroitchamber.com/detroiter/articles.asp?cid=103&detcid=75

  • http://www.dacbsa.org/Awards-Silvers/SilverBuffaloAward.htm