Word: hearstians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Viscount Rothermere, "Hearst of England," who has been a peer for 20 years without ever venturing to take his seat. Friends of the porcine, thick-lipped Viscount claim that he is thin-skinned and shy. Two months ago peppery Major General Baron Mottistone of Mottistone proposed that Hearstian Rothermere should be "expelled" from the House of Lords unless he "apologized" for his newsorgans' "distortion of facts...
...firm opposition to his principles and methods. Talks by Hearst-writers Richard Washburn Child and Bainbridge Colby and indirect offers to become wavers of the Hearst banner did surprisingly little to alter their opinion. Drop in the bucket though it may have been, the money which rolled from the Hearstian coffers to smooth the surface can be written in the ledger with red ink. Mr. Hearst, it would seem, is pinning too much faith in human stupidity. The Daily Princetonian...
Fortnight ago Chairman Francis Biddle of the Labor Board waved aside such Hearstian arguments on jurisdiction and rendered a decision. Findings: ". . . The Call-Bulletin has interfered with the self- organization of its employes in violation of Section ya of the National Recovery Act." Rewriteman Jennings was to be offered reinstatement within ten days or the case would be referred to the Compliance Division of NRA and the Department of Justice for action against the paper...
...Author. Daughter of a Canadian, widow of an Englishman (Clayton Glyn, J. P.), sister of a onetime London-Manhattan modiste (Lady Duff-Gordon), sixtyish, still handsome, Elinor Glyn has always exuded a faintly Hearstian phosphorescence. Considering herself a feline type, she strews her house in London, Paris, Hollywood with tiger and leopard skins, keeps two Persian cats who understand, she says, everything that is said to them. She and her sister as débutantes in London were famed for their brilliant wardrobe, much of it designed and made by themselves. Elinor Glyn began to write as a girl when...
Britain. Because that canny Scot, James Ramsay MacDonald will rush into no experiments, to the infinite distress of Britain's Hearstian press peers, they used the President's speech as a whip to make the Prime Minister giddap...