Word: hearstians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deal at Chicago with the Hearst forces, and Garner was nominated for Vice President-"just the waterboy on the team," as he later called himself. Neither Publisher Hearst nor Nominee Roosevelt understood the calibre of their man. If Publisher Hearst expected John Garner to become a supporter of Hearstian policies he was mistaken. During the few months after the new Vice President took office, Mr. Hearst's contact men, James T. Williams Jr. and John A. Kennedy, used to call often on Mr. Garner. Now their visits are few & far between. Nominee Roosevelt made a different mistake. He feared...
...publicity for his college. Quickly the boycott spread. Last fortnight the Amherst, Mass., theatre gave in at first appearance of a petition on the Amherst College campus. At Princeton, the Princetonian started a petition, got over 1,000 names. "Metrotone Newsreels," charged Editor William Arthur Carlile Jr., lifting a Hearstian phrase, "spread subversive, un-American propaganda." Last week, as agitation sprang up at Harvard, Dartmouth, Vassar and Wesleyan, Princeton's Garden Theatre broke its Metrotone contract...
Meanwhile Hearstian Viscount Rothermere peppered Indian potentates with cablegrams urging them to "Stand firm against the Bill!" Since pudding-headed Rothermere seems fated to fail in all political maneuvers, the Chamber of Princes promptly reacted by intimating to British correspondents that they have no desire to kill the India Bill, merely hope to obtain amendments more favorable to their rights as potentates. Snorted British Elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain: "Let it be understood that we are not willing to allow this House to be driven from what they think right or to enter into a Dutch auction for the support...
Since 1923 this Big Red has controlled The Peasants' Gazette, the State's mouthpiece to the vast majority of Russia's population and the only newsorgan most Soviet farmers ever see. For twelve long years Hearstian Yakovlev has been stuffing Russian peasants with exciting stories. Today he is more than Commissar of Agriculture, his job in 1929-33. Promotion has carried him to the Soviet agricultural top: Chief of the Agricultural Department of the All-Union Communist Party which is above the State. From this eminence last week Comrade Yakovlev stuffed the third Ail-Union Collective Farm...
...people who read nothing but the Soviet Peasants' Gazette this sounded like the acme of sound facts and good sense, yet Hearstian Yakovlev drew loudest cheers, a veritable acclamation, by another part of his discourse. In this he announced as undramatically as he could Joseph Stalin's most sensational retreat on the agricultural front thus...