Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Everyone knows of the terrific battle between Hearst and Pulitzer. Hearst lured the entire Sunday staff away from the World and also captured Arthur Brisbane when Pulitzer refused to let Brisbane write signed editorial comment...
...work of Hearst in stirring up the Spanish-American War needs no reiteration. After the war, Hearst's Journal bitterly attacked President McKinley; one editorial said: "If bad institutions and bad men can be got rid of only by killing, then killing must be done." When President McKinley was assassinated, Hearst's enemies pointed to this editorial as a contributory cause of the assassination. Writer Winkler defends Hearst on the grounds that he knew nothing about the editorial until after it was printed...
...Hearst was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives. "Evidence multiplied that he had touched the hearts and gained the confidence of a great multitude, and that he was beginning to be honestly taken as an unterrified champion of the poor and helpless," says Writer Winkler. Yet Hearst was never again elected to any other important public office, though he tried for senator and governor and, at one time, boomed himself for the presidency. The man who finally spiked the political guns of Hearst was Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York...
...Hearst, 40 in 1903, is described "as a young dilettante whose whole time and attention was devoted to making more joyous the days of his lady fair. Hearst and Millicent Willson were like a couple of children in their love making." They were married on April 28 of that year. She was a musical comedy girl...
...Writer Winkler reminds readers at least three times that Hearst never touches alcohol, though as a good host he serves wine to his guests...