Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feud between the New York Post and Columnist Walter Winchell last week moved from the news columns into the courts. The Post and Editor James A. Wechsler filed libel suits for $1,525,000 against Winchell and the Hearst Corp., his radio-TV sponsor (Gruen Watch Co.), and American Broadcasting Co. Said the Post: in his columns and on his radio-TV programs, Winchell has been engaged in "journalistic gangsterism . . . [He has] spread the impression that the Post and its editors are disloyal to the United States and support and defend the Communist Party and C.P. figures convicted of conspiracy...
...Refusal. By 1946, he had brought the Chronicle to its peak; daily circulation was up 58% (to 169,000), and the paper was running second only to Hearst's Examiner. But when postwar newsprint and labor costs began climbing, the Chronicle, like other dailies, was hard hit. The price of the paper went up to 10?; then Smith put into operation a plan, which with his usual flair, he called the "Theory of Foresight," i.e., expanding the coverage and staff to give the readers more for their money, even though earnings were skidding...
Seventy-six percent of the freshman class was interested enough in the plight of Peter S. Hearst and the pre-election tantrums of seven other candidates to elect them to the Freshman Smoker Committee...
...Hearst's name had been omitted accidentally from the original ballot, the Student Council printed up a second version, this time with all 24 names, and a revote was held Wednesday afternoon...
Those elected were: John W. Coolidge, Jr. of Cambridge and Matthews; John T. Dwyer of Hopkinton and Dudley; James M. Fitzgibbons of Duxbury and Massachusetts; Seymour Goldstaub of West New York, New Jersey and Weld; Peter S. Hearst of Palatine, III. and Massachusetts; Richard M. Oehmler of Pittsburgh and Hollis; J. Brock Stokes of Nashville, Tenn, and Hollis; and Irving K. Zola of Mattapan and Thayor...