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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago he won third place in an architectural competition in Helsingfors," last summer won a fifth in the Wheaton College free-for-all (TIME, June 13). A few weeks before the deadline this year, he confided, "I went skiing up at Quebec, and to hell with it." He got back in time to help Friends James and Rapson get their entry in just under the wire, because "competitions are so much...
...consuming personal ambition had been thwarted. In New York he had campaigned several times in vain to be elected mayor or governor; his papers could make or break small officials, but they never got Hearst farther than two unspectacular terms in the House. In 1922 Al Smith refused to run on the State Democratic ticket with him and at last Hearst knew he would never be President. And so after 27 years in the East he moved back to California and began to surround himself with a grandeur that no other private citizen has ever matched in U. S. history...
...money he used the income of his papers (of which he bought six more), the profits of the mines he had inherited from his prospector father, and a pocketful of promissory notes. Always a worry to his money men, of whom he had half a dozen before he got Judge Shearn, he lost all reason in his spending. By 1924 he was strapped...
...seven and a half years the preferred stockholders got their 7% and Hearst got a great deal more. He got over $12,000,000 in common stock dividends. Publicly-owned Hearst Consolidated newspapers paid $2,000,000 a year to King Features, which was owned by Mr. Hearst's privately owned American Newspapers Inc. And in 1935 Hearst sold his Baltimore, Atlanta and San Antonio papers to Hearst Consolidated for $8,000,000 (of which $6,000,000 was for the familiar item of "circulation, press franchises, reference libraries, etc.") in spite of the fact that these same papers...
Once more he hoped the public might extricate him. In March 1937 Hearst Publications Inc. (a subsidiary of Hearst Consolidated) and Hearst Magazines Inc. filed registration statements with SEC for $35,500,000 of debentures. But SEC never got a chance to pass on the issues. New York Civil Service Commissioner Paul Kern and a Manhattan accountant named Bernard Reis filed a brief objecting to the registration statements as "tending to mislead the public." Hearst kept deferring the effective date of the issues. Hounded by creditors, in June 1937 he took a train to New York and went...