Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In a footnote in your quotations from President Coolidge's address before the Pan-Amer- ican Congress, are these words, "A scarcely disguised rebuke to the suspicion-fomenting lie-circulating Hearst press." I am no friend of that slavering, slobbering, unintellectual and excuseless vulgarity known as the Hearst Press. But I hardly think President Coolidge's remarks were directed against the thirty-five odd" Hearst papers which have stood back of him as they have no President in more than a quarter of a century. The Hearst lies were directed against the Senators who oppose the Administration...
...hold no brief for Mr. Hearst. . . . But there is, Sir, in my judgment, not one word of testimony . . . that justifies the inference asserted by the Senator from Alabama that the Catholic Church or Catholic agencies inspired or prompted the forgeries for the purpose of humiliating or disgracing him or for any other purpose...
Democratic-leader Robinson took this insubordination calmly. Other members of the Hearst-investigating committee got up to confirm his opinion of the alleged Roman Catholic "conspiracy." But Senator Heflin continued insubordinate. This time the fight waxed...
Robinson: "If the Senator cannot recognize it, I do not propose to waste the time of the Senate in telling him. A man of a chivalrous spirit would hold William R. Hearst responsible, rather than assail the wife of William R. Hearst, who is totally inoffensive, so far as I know, in this connection...
Such was a headline with which, last fortnight, the Hearst press daringly scooped and anticipated Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. Her Majesty, unhurried, was not brought to bed until last week, then graciously gave birth to a man child, precisely ten days after the Hearst headline...