Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vice versas. Thousands of Republicans were registered to vote in the Democratic primary. To predict a decisive Smith victory in California the margin of 10,000 votes quoted last week by Smith men seemed inadequate, senseless. Behind Candidate Walsh is William Gibbs McAdoo. Behind Candidate Reed is William Randolph Hearst. Behind Candidate Smith is onetime (1915-21) Senator James Duval Phelan, locally no less potent than McAdoo or Hearst but not clearly the Democratic strong-man of California able to combat the other two and confound them by division. The California primary, set for May Day, loomed large and inscrutable...
...advised by Tammany that he was to lead a ticket upon which William Randolph Hearst would run for U. S. Senator. Ensuing events at the Onondaga Hotel in Syracuse, where the convention was held, wrought one of those changes which no man could have planned yet which might have been brought off by any man possessed of native intelligence, self-respect and courage. Alfred Emanuel Smith had learned to despise William Randolph Hearst. In 1919, after Smith had striven to better New York City's milk supply and been balked by a Republican legislature, Hearst's press...
Boss Murphy and his henchmen were aghast. Without Hearst many a job might be lost. Perhaps Smith would have to go overboard. They tried to reason with him. He stayed in his room chewing his cigars, spitting, scowling, swearing. "No, no, NO!" he roared...
...Hearst who had to back down. From then on, Smith knew he was bigger than Tammany. In 1924, Boss Murphy died and his successor, George Olvany, has never pretended to be Smith's peer...
Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, told the Boy Scouts of America that they could use 90,000 acres of his land near Red Bank, N. J., for a summer camp...