Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hearst on the witness stand is a pleasant combination of Sam Weller and Titus Oakes. Not quite sure what the fuss is about, he is perfectly willing to tell the gentlemen all they wish to know. He doesn't like to think money has been paid to senators, but he has seen the documents. Of course his six million dollar holdings in Mexico have nothing to do with the case even if the series was planned when Calles menaced foreign capital last spring. Why, he is endangering his interests for the public's good. He realized there might be International...
...exerting strong pressure on Government officials, a method used so effectively by the late Wayne B Wheeler. Hereafter it will make a frontal attack with publicity, educational campaigns, and an attempt to answer and condemn all "wet" literature and periodicals. This change is hardly the result of the Hearst disclosures, but springs from the general public feeling against high-handed bureaucracy. Certainly it will ease the hearts and slow the pens of many who thought the League was leagued with the Devil and the Methodist Church to controvert the rights of American citizens; but one is permitted to wonder what...
Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who answered all queries as to what he and the President had talked about by saying: "We had a very delightful conversation...
...during a strike in order to insure the judicious expenditure of $100,000 which he planned to give in the name of the Seviet, has been fiatly denied by both the lawyer and President Calles' aide. It was claimed by the Mexican government that the documents printed in the Hearst papers were offered to Calles for $25,000, but that he declined to be blackmalled...
...Hearst sleuths have either done very excellent work in uncovering such a wasp's nest as the German plottings in Mexico in 1916, or they have followed a cold trail to a mare's nest. There is a wide gulf between what is acceptable to journalism and what is recorded by history. And the identity of this episode, no matter which way it turns, cannot help but prove again that verification is the divining...