Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Randolph Hearst, publisher extraordinary, retired politician, the Brooklyn, N. Y., Daily Eagle (Independent), popped these questions: "Whom will you support for President and what issues will determine the election...
...Hearst's own 26 newspapers had given no clear reflection of his stand because in different cities different stands are needed to please different groups of readers. Mr. Hearst used to be a Democrat. But ever since he was publicly tongue-lashed by Alfred Emanuel Smith in their celebrated quarrel of 1919, et seq., the G. O. P. has grown in Hearst favor. Before the nominating conventions this year, the Hearst press boomed Secretary Mellon for President and Prosperity. When Mayor Walker of New York City visited the Hearst ranch after the Democratic convention, people said he went...
...Hearst was in Paris when the Eagle's questions reached him. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, prominent Republican, had just flayed the G. O. P. for its Prohibition attitude (TIME, Aug. 27). Chairman Raskob of the Democratic National Committee had just asked Nominee Hoover please to be more explicit about his Prohibition attitude. Nominee Smith had just defined his Prohibition attitude by proposing a form of the so-called Canadian Plan (dispensation by States) for U. S. liquor control...
...Hearst decided the time had come for him to make a statement and so, via the Eagle, he said...
Quoted often on matters of motion, famed Henry Ford has seldom if ever before made extensive statements in regard to religion. Last week in an interview with Journalist George Sylvester Viereck which was later printed in Hearst newspapers he revealed his theories about his own soul and those of other men. Views...