Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paper companies that the supply always exceeds the demand. Last spring, mills were operating at only 84.4% of capacity. An artificial combine to keep the price of newsprint at $65 a ton collapsed when some members of the combine made a slick deal with Publisher William Randolph Hearst. A price-cutting war followed...
...gathered in the Toledo (O.) Blade; the Duluth Herald he bought in 1918. Last year, he negotiated a shrewd deal in Pittsburgh, where he bought both the morning Post and the evening Sun, then traded the Sun to Publisher William Randolph Hearst for the morning Gazette-Times, then consolidated the two morning papers into the enormously profitable Post-Gazette. With the Standard-Union, Publisher Block owns five daily newspapers...
From time to time, he has owned many another. Among the journalistic corpses which litter his past are the New York Mail, swallowed by Frank R. Munsey; the Detroit Journal, swallowed by Hearst; the Memphis News-Scimitar; a paper in Lancaster, Pa. These he bought and then sold. But he rejects vigorously the idea that he is a newspaper broker. "It is a good business," he says, "but it is not my business." He sold the Mail, he explains, because neither he nor his partner, Henry L. Stoddard, had the money to carry on. The Journal was a sacrifice...
...publication of Diversey), are Thomas Coward and James McCann. The former, nine years out of Yale College, has worked with The Yale University Press and Bobbs-Merrill Co., was National Squash champion in 1922. The latter, up-from-office-boy at Doubleday Page and Co., was head of Hearst's International Library at the age of 27. Their publishing program includes a juvenile department headed by the daughter of picturesque Dr. Mabel Ulrich, Minnesota physician, college lecturer on sex, and successful bookshop proprietor. The young publishers' big catch is a volume of Thornton Wilder's drama collected...
...WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST...