Word: hearstian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane died on Christmas Day 1936 he left a son, four daughters, around $5,000,000 and an unmatched 39-year record for turning omniscient piffle to profit in his column Today. Last fortnight a new Brisbane byline bobbed up for the first time in the Hearstian New York Mirror. Wrote Seward Brisbane, 24, of an interview with another great...
...Times issued a statement declaring its utter confidence in its man, revealing that it had sent a representative to Mexico not long ago to check on his authenticity. Kluckhohn was assigned to cover Mexico from Brownsville, Texas. Other sectors of the U. S. press were less temperate. The Hearstian New York Mirror shrilled: "Presidents Roosevelt and Cárdenas ought to realize that a lot of Americans are saying: 'Why not just go down there and take over Mexico? . . . The Mexicans themselves would be better off.' " In Mexico City the conservative Ultimas Noticias declaimed: "Kluckhohn sees everything...
...country held on to their chairs and waited for the big blow. The Hearst realm, no longer ruled by its fabulous founder, was now in the hands of men who knew how to save money as well as spend it- and "Smiling Joe" Connolly was one of them. The Hearstian era of prodigality had definitely ended last year when the aging chief consented to the dissolution of his beloved but money-losing New York American (TIME, July 5, 1937). With the New York situation thus temporarily solved, General Manager Connolly's first concern became Chicago, where the profitless morning...
...criticize him?" In 1936, when Candidate Roosevelt presumably desired prosperity as earnestly as he does today, Hearstpapers were as loud in their opposition to Roosevelt as they were in support of him in 1932.* Behind this softening attitude toward the New Deal's spending policy is a Hearstian conviction that Recovery will be the big story of the coming months. Having muffed the big story of 1936 and suffered immeasurable lowering of prestige, Hearst now seems determined to get back on the side of the People...
...sense of loss when heart failure also took away Morrill Goddard, 70, the last great editor of his youth, whom he bought away from Joseph Pulitzer at the same time that he bought the late Arthur Brisbane, and who created and until his death presided over the most successfully Hearstian of all Hearst properties, the gaudy American Weekly. Same day that Goddard died, a third Hearst oldtimer's heart failed: Francis N. Bastible, 56, longtime police and political reporter on the Brooklyn beat for the late American...