Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corporation and social arbiter of the new Casino. Said Mr. Biddle: "All we wanted to do is something for the public. ... We did it for the city. . . . This place is city property." Collected for the first night were such as Mr. & Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Mr. & Mrs. Conde Nast, Mr. & Mrs. Adolph Zukor, Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Grab and the Sheriff of New York County. Maitre d'Hotel Rene Black, "Master of Forty Sauces," hovered majestically. Quick was the Press to pick up this dining place as a likely morsel for public fun. Its menu prices...
What recalled the cellar-kegs of the country was the news that Franklin Chase Hoyt, a Manhattan jurist, had won Publisher William Randolph Hearst's prize of $25,000 for a plan to modify Prohibition. The essence of Winner Hoyt's plan was to leave the 18th Amendment alone and simply to rephrase the Volstead Act so that it would prohibit distilled alcoholic liquors-created by acts of man-and permit beverages rendered alcoholic by fermentation, which, explained the Hoyt Plan...
...learned woman and six learned men* had chosen this Plan from 58 submitted to them by Publisher Hearst's contest editors. The 58 had been weeded from a field of 71,248 plans ranging from a jokester's one word, "Water," to a verbosifier's screed of 50,000 words...
...Hearst's editors took care to point out that the Hearst modification contest had attracted more than three times the number of entries which were submitted last autumn in William Crapo Durant's enforcement contest for the same size prize...
...read the prize-winning plan were optimistic of its practicability. A chief skeptic cited his chief objection. Congressman James Montgomery Beck of Philadelphia, who was chosen for the Hearst Award jury for his knowledge of Constitutional law, wrote a dissenting opinion in which he said...