Word: hearsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also acquired (from the Ziegfeld Follies) Miss Marion Davies, née Douras. Blonde and bubbly daughter of a Brooklyn judge, she was a chorus girl when W.R. met her during World War I. Hearst presently took over her career. Soon Marion Davies was a star of Hearst's Cosmopolitan pictures (Little Old New York), and its $104,000-a-year president. She was to be the aging press lord's companion until his death...
...acre San Simeon, where he rode with his father as a boy, Hearst decreed stately pleasure domes that would have awed Kubla Khan. He equipped the place with everything from giraffes to Roman baths, spent millions to give its vistas a Maxfield Parrish unreality-and insisted on paper napkins and ketchup bottles at the long refectory table because San Simeon was still "the ranch...
...Imperial Hearst. All the while, like Citizen Kane,* for whom he was the model, Hearst grew in wealth, if not in stature. The era of the Winsor McCay cartoons (against the yellow peril, the red peril, the dope peril, etc.) and the thundering Brisbanalities of the column Today, was also the era when Hearst's insatiable acquisitiveness reached its height. He added dozens of papers to his string, turned a score of U.S. cities into Hearst towns...
Wrong Number. His political alliances were never so durable: it was his allergy to practical give-&-take that wrecked his relations with Al Smith, as well as with Hughes and Franklin Roosevelt. In 1932, Hearst cut the cards for the New Deal, assuring Roosevelt's nomination with the telephoned order from San Simeon that switched convention delegates of California and Texas from John Garner to F.D.R. But Roosevelt was against everything that Hearst now stood for. When he realized how things were, Hearst furiously reversed his editorial guns; his papers were ordered to print it "Raw Deal," even...
...Hearst had greater troubles: for the first time in his life, he was desperately strapped for cash. The old man swallowed his pride, and turned over financial control of his overextended empire to a board of regents headed by Manhattan Lawyer Clarence Shearn and Broker John W. Hanes, former Under Secretary of the Treasury. For Hearst himself, it meant a cut in his reckless spending; for his crazy-quilt domain it meant consolidations, ruthless budget cuts. One night in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, Marion Davies did her bit: she calmly wrote out a check...