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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Decline & Fall. Hearst's inevitable dissolution was inherent in his career; now that that career is ending, its turning point stands out. In 1922 Hearst was at his zenith as a publisher. He owned 20 newspapers in 13 of the largest U. S. cities, with Universal Service and INS to flash them worldwide news, King 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...
...Hearst had newspapers in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, had started buying magazines, and was easily No. i U. S. publisher. That was the year he printed the famed Standard Oil letters revealing bribery of U. S. Senators, high point in Hearst's career as a liberal muckraker...
...expiration of his contract March 15. Fortnight ago, on Page i of The Exchange & Mart, there appeared a two-inch advertisement that angered Big-hearted Arthur and the BBC no end. "Britain's Best Cleaner," it read, with the initials in boldface so that nobody could miss the point, "Askitoff will take it off." Investigation revealed that an enterprising new outfit called Askitoff Cleaner Co. had patented the name, and apparently nothing could be done about...
...with monopoly than any other Government agency, seldom lets a week go by without cracking down on at least one corporate offender. Last week, prefacing a review of FTC's dealings with steel, milk, artichokes, cheese, liquor, fish, poultry, Mr. Ballinger stuck pretty much to generalities. His main point turned out to be the familiar FTC complaint that it has been unable to limit the growth of monopoly because the Clayton act forbids only corporate combinations through stock purchase, does not forbid actual purchase of physical properties...
Those who look with disfavor on the increase demanded by the A. F. of I. point to the permanence and stability of University employ, and to superior working conditions. The University saves jobs for waitresses intending to return after the summer recess...