Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Phoebe Apperson Hearst, daughter of a wealthy Missouri farmer. Famed for her beauty, kindness...
Bitter was Governor Smith's hatred. Three years later Mr. Hearst had allied himself with the powerful Tammany organization and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York. On the same ticket he wanted Mr. Smith to run for Senator, and so did Tammany. An overwhelming victory was assured. Chewing stubbornly on his cigar in a Syracuse hotel room the day before the 1922 State Convention, Governor Smith risked political extinction, defied his organization, and said he would not run on the same ticket with the man who had accused him of withholding good milk from...
William Randolph Hearst is called an attractive man. His is a great, tall, 2201b. figure with long arms and big hands. His eyes are bluish grey, and it is said, not very kind. He is quiet, almost bashful, and possesses quantities of that illusive thing called personality...
...accused of pro-Germanism), he owns castles in Lincolnshire, England, and in Wales. He has traveled far. He owns in the Coast Range Mountains of California a domain of hundreds of acres, luxuriously complete with castles, works of art, and modern plumbing. His wife is Millicent Willson Hearst, a onetime actress, active in many charities. They have five sons, two of whom are already old enough to function in their father's news factories. Indeed, George, the oldest (23), already controls and operates the New York Mirror and the New York American...
...life been easy for "Willie" Hearst? Success is all around him. It is true he had the ten-year start on life which family millions give to any man. Unlike many a man, he has worked hard with them. His success has meant ceaseless work; and that (for the few men who like it) is easy. Politically life has been hard. He wanted to see "President Hearst" streaming across the pages of his newspapers. He' did not see it. Socially, who can say whether life has been hard or easy...