Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signer D'Annunzio, foremost of Italy's poets and World War heroes, spoke outside the canons of Anglo-Saxon good taste but spoke the truth. None the less, Hearst Editor Brisbane, conqueror upon no field of arms, and certainly of no spirit so exalted as the great Duse's, was moved to carp, last week, at Poet Gabriels...
...born. Smooth-faced, graying a little, just 50, his personality is of the kind that makes trade organs like the Fourth Estate lay it on thick about "integrity," "ideals," "sincerity," "inspiring confidence and loyalty" in explaining his "romantic" career. For three years he has been fighting Publisher Hearst over an Associated Press franchise in Rochester, and though victory is not yet with him, the Southern Tier is stronger than ever for "Spunky Frank" Gannett. Last June, Cornell elected him a trustee...
...able journalist. A machine invented by Thomas Alva Edison listens attentively to Mr. Brisbane's remarks; a respectful secretary transcribes his master's voice into typewritten copy; and the New York American, the Chicago Herald-Examiner, the San Francisco Examiner and many another newspaper owned by Publisher Hearst, to say nothing of some 200 non-Hearst dailies and 800 country weeklies which buy syndicated Brisbane, all publish what Mr. Brisbane has said. His column is headed, with simple finality, "Today," a column that vies with the weather and market reports for the size of its audience, probably beating...
...know the history of that column, "Today," wherein his name has appeared to such splendid advantage of recent weeks. Everyone knows that Arthur Brisbane tells more things to more people than any other man in the U. S., but President Coolidge lived long in iNew England, where the Hearst-Brisbane influence has only lately penetrated. He may wonder how this one man came to his position and out of what yesterday came ubiquitous "Today...
...Right Honorable William Maxwell Aitken, well known as Lord Beaverbrook, notorious as "the Hearst of England," blatant chief proprietor of the London Daily Express, etc., enlivened the pages of that raucous news organ last week with an attack on Britain's resumption of the gold standard (TIME...