Word: obispo
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Then Mayor Walker did something that surprised and puzzled. He went to visit William Randolph Hearst on the enormous Hearst estate near San Luis Obispo. What did that portend, treachery or missionary work...
Following the Walker visit to San Luis Obispo, observers watched the Hearst press to see if they could detect a change of policy. Perhaps Smith, eager to win, could now tolerate Hearst, at a distance and through an emissary, in return for an "even break" in the Hearst press. Perhaps Smith's friends, without consulting him, were trying to patch up a working agreement, putting it on a party instead of a personal basis. Or perhaps Publisher Hearst, lonely in his demesne, merely wanted to be amused and informed by the knowing japes of Manhattan's official comedian...
...proceeded by train ... to San Luis Obispo and then by motor over 50 mi. along the ocean into the mountains of the Pacific Coast to an altitude of about 2,000 ft. to the Hearst Castle, La Cuesta Encantada, meaning the enchanted hill...