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Last week at Chicago newsstands some 22,000 readers of William Randolph Hearst's morning Herald & Examiner picked up that paper, paused, put it down again, walked angrily away. Reason: the Herex had upped its price from...
Chicago editors' stomachs were less delicate. Despite the fact that William Randolph Hearst opposes capital punishment, his Herald & Examiner gave the picture a full page, tacked on a homely sermon against crime by Rev. Thomas Anderson, religion editor. Next day the Herex ran all six pictures and the Hearst American slapped one across Page One with a homily by Rev. Preston Bradley, publicity-loving dean of the Chicago clergy...
...third year of the European War Howey, attracted by William Randolph Hearst's isolationist policy concerning the U. S., went over to the Herald & Examiner as managing editor. On the Herex city desk was a battery of telephones, one painted white. When the white one rang, a desk editor seized it in a flash. It was a private wire from a police department switchboard, whose operators were on Howey's secret payroll. Detectives never could understand why they nearly always found Herex newshawks at a crime scene before them...
...Herald & Examiner stepped up to him. "You want to see me?" asked Mayor Kelly. "Yes," replied the Hearstling. "Questions?" "Yes" Mayor Kelly turned on his heel, strode back into his office, shot over his shoulder: "There's no use your waiting around." The reporter departed. Next morning the Herex blazoned this headline across its front page...
Thus did Publisher Hearst's sudden crusade to oust the Mayor of the No. 2 U.S. city finally come crashing out into the open. For a week the front pages of the Herex and the afternoon American had been smeared with thundering innuendos to the effect that a top-notch Chicago politician had been in an income tax jam with the Federal Government. The constant use of Mayor Kelly's picture left readers in small doubt as to who was meant. All the Mayor would say when questioned was: "Any answer I might make would...