1910

• Robert R. McCormick, known after World War I as the Colonel, becomes editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, turning it into the most consistently ultraconservative paper for the next several decades.
• Oswald Garrison Villard, at work as a reporter for his father's New York Evening Post, investigates the Republican majority leader of the New York state legislature. His exposés lead to the first conviction of a legislator for graft in New York history.
• Rheta Childe Dorr publishes What Eight Million Women Want, an account of the suffrage movements in Great Britain and the United States.
• On March 10, the Pittsburgh Courier begins publication.
• On June 18, Congress gives the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) regulatory authority over the nation's telephone, telegraph, cable, and wireless communications companies. The move is applauded by those industries,...