Word: hearstian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point d'honneur. Of recent years Lord Harmsworth, Mr. Pearson, and the intolerable Bottomley have made a hearty and sincere attempt to remedy this; they have told a great number of lies, often on important things, they have raved and stamped their feet and babbled in the true Hearstian metaphysic, and in this wise many heads have been broken and many papers sold. But their energy has not created a movement: the main current of British journalism is placid and undisturbed, and in the mention of a double column headline its managing editors still find the potent smell of heresy...
...mass meeting culminated a week of slowly gathering public indignation. Chicago's Hearstian Herald & Examiner had helped to whip it up with daily scourgings of the "handful of political appointees'' attempting "to wreck the city's school system and rob her 500,000 school children of their educational birthright." A "Save Our Schools" committee had sprung into fervent being. Claiming to represent 40 civic organizations, it had deluged the city with petitions, dodgers, tickets for the mass meeting. Other clubs and societies had pelted the board with protests. Cried the Tax Service Association of Illinois: "What...
...Government bloc, respectively headed by National Socialist (Nazi) Chancellor Hitler and Nationalist Minister of Economics. Food & Agriculture Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, Germany's Hearstian news and cinema tycoon...
Ever since greying Harvard Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague became Economic Adviser to the Bank of England (TIME, Jan. 27, 1930), he has kept his mouth shut. Hearstian suspicions that he might be Wall Street's go-between in maneuvers to scale down Europe's War debts to the U. S. have slowly died out. Last week Professor Sprague, now an accepted and respected figure in "The City" (London's financial district), created a stir by stating his conviction that Prosperity can be restored in industrial countries by creating a demand for a new product-such...
Since Edward of Vales as "Empire Salesman" has visited Argentina and has not visited Soviet Russia, the Mother Country's stand last week was somewhat grotesque. At once her No. i delegate, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, was furiously attacked in England by the Hearstian papers of Baron Beaverbrook, himself Canadian-born...