Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, Democratic irreconcilable, whose boom is being fostered by the Hearst press, lifted his voice at P'eoria, Ill., exclaiming: "On the heels of the War . . . there was a flood of resignations by every sort of Government employee, from department clerks to Cabinet officers...
...next group in point of numbers, but one even larger in point of circulation, is the Hearst press. Mr. Hearst owns 22 papers with 14 Sunday editions. They have a total daily circulation erf 3,350,411, and a Sunday circulation of 4,084,394. This gives him over 10% of total circulation of all daily papers in the country, and almost 20% of the entire Sunday circulation...
...Boss Murphy has ordered his lawyers to begin suit for libel against Mr. Hearst...
...Journal's wish, it seems, is to be granted although Mr. Hearst and the Star Company filed a demurrer to prevent the suit, and were overruled. It is an old, old trick to begin a libel suit before election and drop it afterwards. Apparently Mr. Murphy has some new tricks in his bag. Unless some further legal business intervenes, Mr. Murphy will have an opportunity to go before a jury, shouting, chanting, singing...
John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: "At Palm Beach, my wife and I gave a dinner in honor of William Randolph Hearst. I made a short speech. Said I: 'I consider William Randolph Hearst the greatest living American...