Word: hearstmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst Consolidated (which controls 13 of the 20 Hearstpapers, plus the American Weekly), had passed three consecutive quarterly dividends on its 7% Class A (preferred) stock. If it passed the fourth, due March 15, control of the most valuable Hearst newspaper properties could go out of the hands of Hearstmen and into the hands of some 50,000 small stockholders, who put up $50,000,000 for what Mr. Hearst assured them nine years ago was "an ultra-conservative investment." With dividends $2,625,000 in arrears and $875,000 due this time, and with a committee representing...
...tranquil late '20s and up until 1935, when the Duce made most of his private income by writing for the Hearst newspapers, Madame Sarfatti was his "ghost" and manager. When the Dictator wanted a raise from Hearst, she helped to negotiate it, sometimes by arranging improved treatment for Hearstmen in Italy...
...York last week Hearstmen worried about another fire which burned 1,500 tons of paper in the building where the Journal & American is published. Rewrite men stuck to their desks on the sixth floor, wrote the story with wet handkerchiefs dangling over their eyes to keep out the smoke...
...them whether they were pro or con-a laborious process since it involved explaining about the King & Mrs. Simpson to British subjects, most of whom have never heard of her. Next day Hearst papers announced that 80 of the 100 questioned declared themselves in favor of such a match. Hearstmen then queried British officials in every Dominion and in India without finding any who cared to go on record as opposed to a marriage of the King-Emperor and Wallis Warfield Simpson...
...newspapers in the flood's path, Pittsburgh's were hardest hit. When telegraphic facilities failed, Hearstmen on the Sun-Telegraph managed to get a long distance connection with the New York American, had Arthur Brisbane's column "Today" dictated over the wire. In it Mr. Brisbane announced that "Johnstown, Pa. has its second important flood," went on to wonder "whether engineers could not have arranged to let the second flood run around the city instead of through...