Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able to establish the Joseph Pulitzer Fund of some $2,000,000 for the endowment of the School of Journalism at Columbia University. In late autumn of 1911 he died, peacefully, on board his yacht Liberty bound south for a leisurely cruise. With William Randolph Hearst he was one of the two most influential figures in U. S. journalism...
Died. William Bradford Merrill, 67, since 1917 general manager of the Hearst newspapers; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Among other instances cited during the debate and discussion on the subject "The influence of the Press as a Cause of International Conflict", the action of the Hearst papers during the Spanish-American war was especially viewed with disapprobation. The representative papers of the individual countries were laid open to investigation and severe criticism, and the policy of strict censorship followed by Mussolini which allows at the same time the invasion of diplomatic relations with both France and Switzerland...
Censorship, it was felt, is merely a worse situation than that of the existing press trust in America. In commenting upon typical American news papers, it was offered by one delegate that there are those to know and those to "know of" in which latter category were mentioned the Hearst combines and the Boston American as its local representative...
...Deception Island to fly to the South Pole, last week sent radiograms -to the Lockheed Aircraft Co.: "Both Lockheed [Vega] [mono] planes performed splendidly on first Antarctic flight"; to the Wright Aeronautical Corp.: "Whirlwinds [motors] performing perfectly on first Antarctic flight ever made;" to the Hearst papers, his backers: "Mild weather has melted snow on landing field, so tests were made with wheels...