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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class A (preferred) stock. If it passed the fourth, due March 15, control of the most valuable Hearst newspaper properties could go out of the hands of Hearstmen and into the hands of some 50,000 small stockholders, who put up $50,000,000 for what Mr. Hearst assured them nine years ago was "an ultra-conservative investment." With dividends $2,625,000 in arrears and $875,000 due this time, and with a committee representing 30,000 shares waiting to pounce on the company, the directors needed somebody to tell them what to do. Mr. Hearst is President...
...many little-known facts about William Randolph Hearst's fantastically tangled affairs is that his rival Los Angeles publisher, Harry Chandler of the Times, holds a mortgage on San Simeon. Last month in Los Angeles, rather than embarrass his strapped debtor, Mr. Chandler agreed to extend the mortgage. But it was not Mr. Hearst who made the request. Mr. Hearst was not. in Los Angeles or San Simeon...
Last fortnight in Chicago, Joseph Vincent Connolly, general manager of all Hearstpapers, and half-a-dozen other Hearst bigwigs were frantically trying to do something about the gasping Herald & Examiner, struck by the Newspaper Guild and thinned by advertisers. The Herex is a favorite paper of Mr. Hearst's. But Mr. Hearst was not in Chicago...
...Mr. 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...
...liberal crusader in the early 19003 Clarence Shearn was his lawyer. His last big job before he became Hearst's boss 21 months ago was as trial counsel for the Chase National Bank in a series of stockholders' suits (TIME, April 26, 1937), and in handling Mr. Hearst's financial affairs he has worked in close harmony with the Chase, Hearst's largest banking creditor...