Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other kinds of men whose influence counted. Men had called him another Cincinnatus. He let his friends play up the farm idea and prepared to be called from the plow. . . . But he answered curtly the reporters who questioned him. Once, at the Kansas City railroad station, he gave a Hearst newshawk an ungentle shove and said: "You newspaper men will get along better with me if you wait until I have something...
...Publisher William Randolph Hearst released a carefully timed, personally signed editorial, pronouncing Hoover to be "unquestionably the strongest candidate from a mere political point of view" and one by whose nomination the G. O. P. "will strengthen itself for many years to come by aligning . . . elements of foreign descent with the party...
...purchased since he became editor and part owner of the Elmira (N. Y.) Gazette in 1906. Mergers and one sale (Twin City Sentinel), Winston-Salem, N. C. (TIME, Aug. 23, 1926) reduced the number of his newspapers to thirteen. He was not in a position to challenge the Hearst or Scripps-Howard chains, *but he had become a dominant influence in upstate New York, an unobtrusive god in a territory of more than 5,000,000 citizens. He is now a man of wealth, insured for $1,000,000, with properties for which he holds...
...Rochester is the largest city yet invaded by Mr. Gannett, the majority of his papers being in cities of less than 100,000 population. The Hearst and Scripps systems are built around great metropolitan dailies. The cities...
...Hearst Scripps-Howard Gannett New York (2) New York Ithaca...