Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made his views clear at a press conference shortly after renewing his demand that Congress appropriate an additional $150,000,000 for relief or assume full responsibility for hardships to 5,000,000 W.P.A. workers and their dependents resulting from the current economy drive...
...year to King Features, which was owned by Mr. Hearst's privately owned American Newspapers Inc. And in 1935 Hearst sold his Baltimore, Atlanta and San Antonio papers to Hearst Consolidated for $8,000,000 (of which $6,000,000 was for the familiar item of "circulation, press franchises, reference libraries, etc.") in spite of the fact that these same papers had lost $550,000 in 1934. But other Hearstpapers were losing even more (the New York American lost around $1,000,000 a year), and real-estate values had toppled. Hearst was hopelessly mired in extravagance and debt...
...Great Hearst. Hearst's career spanned exactly half a century, and more than any other career in history it proved the power and privileges of a free press. No other press lord ever wielded his power with less sense of responsibility; no other press ever matched the Hearst press for flamboyance, perversity and incitement of mass hysteria. Hearst never believed in anything much, not even Hearst, and his appeal was not to men's minds but to those infantile emotions which he never conquered in himself: arrogance, hatred, frustration, fear. But while Hearst dragged his readers vicariously through...
...Francisco Examiner, published Casey at the Bat. Nine years later he was in Manhattan, buying a stable of Pulitzer writers for his Journal, whooping it up for Bryan and the Cubans. A few months before Richard Harding Davis started sending his naming dispatches from Havana, Hearst got a press that would print 16 pages in color, and the same generation that grew up to worship Dewey and Hobson and T. R., and went around whistling There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, got many a laugh out of the Yellow Kid, Happy Hooligan...
Particularly steady readers were Mussolini's censors. Last month they decided they had read enough. Omnibus was suppressed, and Editor Longanesi was told by Minister of Press and Propaganda Dino Alfieri that he would not again edit an Italian magazine, thus sparing the good folk of Italy a "debasement of morals" and a waste of "good money...