Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...police, reassured that they had found their man, spirited Hearst Correspondent Horan off to jail and grilled him for seven hours. They refused him a lawyer, refused to let him telephone, and only grudgingly allowed him to send out for a sandwich and what Mr. Horan later described as "a bottle of water." Over and over and over the Agents asked him how and from whom he obtained the secret details of the new Anglo-French naval agreement (TIME, Aug. 13 et seq.), first scooped and published throughout the U. S. by Hearst newspapers...
Stubbornly Correspondent Horan refused to tell. A Hearst man to the core, he once tutored the Hearst children, was rewarded by elevation to Correspondenthood. Finally the examining Agents became so vexed that they offered Prisoner Horan his choice between being made to stand trial for stealing important documents (penalty if convicted five years at hard labor) or, alternatively, he could go free by signing a paper stated to contain admissions made by him while on the grill...
Cables flashed. Mr. William Randolph Hearst called personally on President Calvin Coolidge. The President was understood to have opined that Mr. Koran's case came solely within the jurisdiction of the French courts. To reporters gathered on the White House lawn Publisher Hearst said: "The French authorities are behaving like spoiled children. . . . Why should they make this ridiculous fuss about the publication of their secret agreement with Great Britain, unless there is something in it that they are ashamed...
Meanwhile Hearstling Horan, released by the police, hurriedly sped to Brussels, Belgium, then London, lest he be again molested. To news colleagues he explained that Mr. Hearst himself gave him the secret document for transmission to the U. S. in the Hearst suite at the Hotel Crillon, Paris, on Sept. 18 last. French cable companies refused to transmit the despatch, so Correspondent Horan mailed it to London, whence it was put on the wire to Manhattan...
...authoritative Paris Journal des Debats, which almost invariably reflects the attitude of the French Government, said: "Horan and Hearst, if they again come to Paris, ought to be arrested, condemned and put in prison. . . . M. Hearst placed at the disposition of his collaborator a sum which in the country of dollars perhaps seems small, but which in the land of paper francs means something. One talks of $5,000 or $10,000. Hearst and Horan committed a low and fraudulent action against international public order. We like to believe that they will be judged as they deserve by their...