Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busied himself in Brussels, shaping up material he has gathered for presentation to European leaders, the King's letter came, as it was obviously intended to come, as a dramatic stroke to arrest world opinion, help pave the way for action. Next day in London the Laborite Daily Herald enthusiastically told His Majesty he had written "a letter which may alter world history!" London's arch-Conservative Morning Post dryly said: "The very least that countries to which the appeal was directed can do is give to the proposal their urgent and sympathetic consideration...
Seven years ago this week Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson put her small and pretty feet under a Hearst desk as editor & publisher of the Washington Herald. Much-traveled Mrs. Patterson had always wanted to run a Washington paper. Much-propertied Mr. Hearst had long wondered what to do about the Herald, a consistent money-loser with a piddling circulation of 60,000. It was a happy solution for both, and the only long faces were those of Joseph Medill Patterson, who did not like the idea of his sister working for his archrival, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. who was promptly made...
...Patterson's agreement with Mr. Hearst was an elastic one which could be terminated by either party on 90 days notice. She made such a success of the Herald, boosting its circulation to over 112,000 that last January Eugene Meyer, publisher of its morning rival, the Post, offered Hearst $1,000.000 for it. Mrs. Patterson telephoned Mr. Hearst, who suggested that she consider taking over both his Washington newspapers (the other is the evening Times). She said she wanted time to think it over, and meanwhile in April arranged to lease the Herald. Last fortnight she heard that...
Last week Cissy Patterson signed a contract leasing both the Herald and the Times for five years, with an option to purchase them at a predetermined price...
Visible among the babbling throng of spectators were the 44¼-carat Hope Diamond and its wan owner, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Also on view were the New York Herald Tribune's fashionable chitchat columnist, Lucius Beebe; Ward Morehouse of the New York Sun; Dr. Kingsley Roberts, Manhattan Surgeon; Mrs. Paul T. Mayo of Denver, her sister Mrs. Stanley Harris of Washington, Mrs, William McKinnon of Paris, Eloise Staats of Greenwich, Conn., who raises horses on her Colorado ranch, and a host of other socialites. There was so much alcoholic garrulity in the packed house that the first...