Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William F. Kirk, 50, Hearst poet-humorist-baseball-writer; at Chippewa Falls, Wis.; of cancer...
...Only the enchanting personality of Geraldine Farrar could have carried off such an enormous coup as is Miss Talley's although of course had Mary Garden been inclined toward anything but prismatic gowns she could have done the same and have rated, if not the Post at least the Hearst sheets. But it remained for the pride of Kansas City to garner both publicity and economy. Whoever is the power behind the throne in guiding Miss Talley through the mazes of an operatic career has a large amount of sagacity and a peculiar insight into the minds of what...
...Hurting" Hearst...
...much is Publisher Hearst worth, not as a citizen, but in dollars. It would be modest to start at $25,000,000 for his string of magazines. It would be modest to add $20,000,000 for his biggest moneymaker, the New York American. It would be modest to lump his 20-odd other newspapers at $50,000,000. It is hard to price his vast holdings in Mexican realty, but $10,000,000 would not be overrating them. And much property in California and elsewhere must be added. Shrinking the total to be thoroughly conservative, a guesser might safely...
...much would it hurt Mr. $100,000.000 Hearst to part with $1,500,000 in a libel suit? No more, and probably less, than it would hurt an urchin with one dollar in his panties to pay a one-cent school fine for having filthy hands. It would probably hurt Mr. Hearst less than the schoolboy because the injustices Mr. Hearst may do an individual here and there are wafted off his conscience by the enormous amount of good he thinks he brings to THE PEEPUL...