Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week this second son moved out a step from his journalistic juniority. New York City's policemen and firemen had won a pay-raise from the voters. The Hearstpapers had vigorously helped. In expressing thanks, the city's servants addressed not only the newspapers and their owner but also...
No figurehead is President Hearst Jr. Ten hours at his desk is no long day for him. Seriously a journalist, ambitious, he dislikes Manhattan but wants to make a success of his job. No less a pundit than Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime chief of the New York World, is said...
The rise of the Hearst scions in their father's world has not been meteoric but deliberately, parentally calculated. They have had to work in their school vacations. At 17, William Randolph Jr. worked as a union "fly boy" (pulling papers from the presses) in the press room of the...
But troubles are not new to Mr. Mitchell nor has he often been bested by them. In 1898, a Junior at Amherst, he was troubled by his father's business failure, but got himself an assistant instructorship in public speaking and worked his way through his Senior year. In Chicago...
¶ Two weeks ago George Hannauer, late President of the Boston & Maine, died of heart failure while watching the Yale-Dartmouth game. Last week the B. & M. elected Board Chairman Thomas Nelson Perkins, Harvard Fellow, as acting President. Mr. Perkins has been an outstanding lawyer in Massachusetts for some 35...