Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME credited the World-Telegram's world-girdling Reporter Ekins with no victory, no record. Third contestant in the race-that-was-not-a-race, New York Journal's Dorothy Kilgallen, took a special plane on the home stretch from Alameda to Newark, completed her circumnavigation in 24 days 12 hr. 51 min. Sticking strictly to commercial schedules, except for one taxi ride from Bologna to Brindisi, Timesman Kieran made the trip in 24 days...
...Including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit News, Louisville Courier-Journal, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Toronto Star...
...platforms were universally junked. The myth of his political power, long a potent factor in American campaigns, was never more devastatingly exploded, for it proved as impotent and soiled as the man around whom it hovered. Besides the end of the Hearst hypothesis, the Literary Digest and Farm Journal polls went into the discard, hurled from their crowing perches by the enormity of their failure. Their era is over, their place to be taken, perhaps, by Dr. Gallup and his attendant prophets...
Through his three Manhattan loud-speakers-morning American (circulation: 320,000), evening Journal (631,000), tabloid Mirror (555,000)-and his 25 other mouthpieces throughout the land, shrill William Randolph Hearst has dinned his hatred of the New Deal day in, day out, furnished Franklin Roosevelt with his noisiest opposition. After almost 40 years the Hearst crusades have grown stale with custom and the Hearst political influence is uniformly discounted by experienced observers. But, win or lose next week, Publisher Hearst himself is sure of a place in the history of the 1936 campaign. It was he who "discovered...
...assertion that U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull will be asked to silence on the subject of Mrs. Simpson "a weekly periodical with a large and influential circulation." Reynolds continued: "At the same time efforts will be made to have pressure brought on the editor of the American journal from another quarter. . . . [John Pierpont] Morgan's close friends are the Duke and Duchess of York, who have several times been his guests. So Morgan will be asked to intervene...