Word: hearstians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disillusion Must Result." Exuberant over the prospects at Ottawa seemed Britain's "Press lords," Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, whose Hearstian papers have a joint circulation of 10,000,000 in the British Isles and who have plugged blatantly for years in favor of something called "Empire Free Trade." Serenely last week Sir Arthur Salter, British economist famed in the U. S. for his scholarly best seller Recovery?The Second Effort ($3), observed: "The misleading phrase 'Empire Free Trade' has caused much confusion in the English public mind...
...Hoover and his cabinet today" and that Capone would "be asked to inform the Government at once what plan he may have in mind." But in Washington, Attorney General Mitchell stated that his Department was "not doing anything about it." Observers agreed that the whole affair was a typical Hearstian exploit ? shrewd, bold, and precisely on the borderline of journalistic integrity...
...talk of drafting him for Fusion Mayor in 1933. Graduated from Columbia University and New York Law School, he was admitted to the bar in 1894. In politics he has been amazingly independent, having been nominated for public office at various times by Republicans, Democrats, Progressives, Single Taxers. Populists, Hearstian Independent Democrats. In 1907 he mounted the State Supreme Court Bench, distinguished himself by liberal opinions and by sending Police Lieut. Charles Becker to the electric chair for his part in the famed Herman Rosenthal murder. In 1916 Mr. Seabury received the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Knifed by Tammany, defeated...
...Early Hearstian thrills became evident while the ship moored at Brooklyn. To hook the projected trip up with some-thing everyone knows, Jean Jules Verne, a staid public prosecutor of Rouen, France, imported for the occasion, was to christen Sir Hubert's submarine the Nautilus after the fantastic craft which ''Captain Nemo" sailed Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea in Prosecutor Verne's famed grandfather's imagination. Readers were allowed to believe that it was from Jules Verne's book that Sir Hubert got his undersea idea. Matter of fact it was from his exploring friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson that...
Under the caption "Will She? Can She?" Mrs. Patterson editorialized with Hearstian italics as follows...