Word: hearsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first radio message out of the air during his boyhood days in South Carolina by stringing wires between the tall pines in his parents' backyard. He worked for a while as a professional wireless operator on ships plying the Pacific. Later, when he became a reporter for Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, he set up a ham set in the city room. When police captured Public Enemy John Dillinger in 1934 and refused to tell newsmen the whereabouts and time of arrival of the plane carrying him from Tucson to Chicago, Turner was the man behind...
When William Randolph Hearst died two years ago, the editorial management of his 16-newspaper empire went to his son and namesake, Bill Jr. The other four brothers were scattered throughout the empire in important executive posts. Last week Bill Hearst's Manhattan headquarters announced that his younger brother Randolph, 37, was retiring as publisher of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin to step into the No. 2 spot in the chain. Randy's title: president of Hearst Publishing Co., Inc. and assistant general manager, Hearst Newspapers, i.e., boss of Hearst papers in the West...
...place for both sentimental and business reasons, for it made substantial profits over the years, mainly in blooded Shorthorns and Herefords pastured in scores of thousands on the Sierra Madre's green slopes and herded finally to El Paso and the U.S. market. When revolution rolled across Mexico, Hearst's private armies of vaqueros fought bloody battles with Pancho Villa to save Babicora's herds and buildings. When President Cárdenas' land reforms later broke up other great U.S.-owned land holdings, Hearst's battalions of lawyers and editors staved off expropriation...
Finally, in 1951, the old man died. Mexico soon found that his heirs lacked his heart for such battles. Last week, 67 years after Senator George Hearst made his coup, legal title to the great ranch passed from the Hearst estate to the Mexican government. The government had been prepared for expropriation, but the transaction finally agreed on was an outright sale. The price: $2,500,000 cash. Thus passed the last of the great cattle empires of Mexico's north. Though Babicora will not, like other big ranches, be parceled out to peasants in small lots, it will...
...member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, the elder Hearst received advance word of the surrender of Geronimo, the Apache chief whose periodic raids into the Babicora region had caused havoc among the ranchers. Before the news got out, he was able to buy several hundred thousand acres at 20? an acre...