Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From now until November a popular pastime will be straw-voting. In Chicago the Tribune, in New York State the Daily News, summoned citizens to cast meaningless ballots in voting machines which were lugged around to make "copy" and gain publicity. The Hearst press announced that it would do the same throughout the land. Remarked, though meaningless, in the early returns last week was a large "straw" lead recorded for Smith in that citadel of Republicanism, Pittsburgh...
Then Mayor Walker did something that surprised and puzzled. He went to visit William Randolph Hearst on the enormous Hearst estate near San Luis Obispo. What did that portend, treachery or missionary work...
Nominee Smith, as everyone knows, has repeatedly expressed his unmitigated contempt for Publisher Hearst ever since the latter's newspapers mendaciously blamed Smith for a bad milk situation in Manhattan. In 1922, Smith refused to lead his State ticket until Hearst was withdrawn as candidate for the U. S. Senate. In 1926, when Hearst supported Ogden L. Mills against Smith for the New York governorship, Smith characterized it as "the kiss of death" for Mills. Mills was badly beaten. This year, Hearst has signed editorials praising Hoover and sneering at Smith...
Following the Walker visit to San Luis Obispo, observers watched the Hearst press to see if they could detect a change of policy. Perhaps Smith, eager to win, could now tolerate Hearst, at a distance and through an emissary, in return for an "even break" in the Hearst press. Perhaps Smith's friends, without consulting him, were trying to patch up a working agreement, putting it on a party instead of a personal basis. Or perhaps Publisher Hearst, lonely in his demesne, merely wanted to be amused and informed by the knowing japes of Manhattan's official comedian...
...founding three tabloid newspapers, against the wishes of his family. He used on his masthead the phrase: "The public be served." Within two years, his tabloids (in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami) went bankrupt (TIME, May 10, 1926, et seq.]. Vanderbilt IV then functioned as special writer for the Hearst New York Mirror, appealed to the masses with sneering remarks about his family's plutocratic mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...