Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst was with Marion Davies, at her Santa Monica Beach house. The Hearst who mortgaged San Simeon to get $600,000 for spending money has for the past two years been employed as editorial director of his own newspapers, and last year his salary from the Hearst Consolidated papers was cut from $500,000 to $100,000. No longer ruler of the empire he built, Hearst has only two desires concerning it: 1) to have some of it survive him; 2) to keep his job. Nearing 76, the man who was the most spectacular publisher and spendthrift of his time...
...Features Syndicate to dish out comics and boilerplate philosophy, the scandalsheet American Weekly to boost Sunday circulation into the multimillions. He had a string of magazines, a newsreel, a motion-picture company. He had the world's highest paid stable of writers and editors. And he made more money than any other publisher before or since...
...spent money as few princes ever dared to do. He ensconced himself in San Simeon with a zoo, bought St. Donat's castle in Wales, built an elaborate Hollywood publicity machine to glorify Marion Davies, indulged himself insatiably in the purchase of art treasures until he had spent $35,000,000 for what could have been bought for about $15,000,000. For money he used the income of his papers (of which he bought six more), the profits of the mines he had inherited from his prospector father, and a pocketful of promissory notes. Always a worry...
American Weekly, sold to non-Hearst papers for the first time last year, has a circulation of 6.700.000, makes more money for Hearst than anything else Hearst owns. Not only do the Hearstpapers guarantee 5.000.000 of its circulation, but it has held Hearst's Sunday circulation steady while daily circulation declined. Hearstpapers also contribute much of the income of King Features, which prospers, and of INS, which gets along...
...B.R.T., which went into receivership in 1918. It emerged as Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp., which now operates a subway connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan and another between Manhattan and Queens, as well as numerous elevateds, bus routes and trolleys in Brooklyn and Queens. B.M.T. makes money ($4,508,462 in fiscal...