Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...development of yellow journalism to an all-time high (with some short-lived exceptions) and because he has distinguished himself as America's No. 1 political acrobat, the League of Yellow Journalists places in nomination for Man of the Year none other than its honorary president, William Randolph Hearst...
...name which chiefly emerged from the Windsor & Simpson Story-of-the-Year with credit was the name of William Randolph Hearst. There have been only two real Simpson scoops and Mr, Hearst personally scored Scoop No. i when he learned in England from King Edward that His Majesty was not just fooling around but was firm in his resolve to marry (TIME, Nov. 2). Scoop No. 2 is under stood to have been secured for Mr. Hearst by Miss Marion Davies in transatlantic conversation with her friend Mrs. Ernest Simpson. This scoop was the information that, while Edward VIII...
...organization which speaks loudest and most authoritatively for U. S. newspaper publishers is the 49-year-old American Newspaper Publishers Association, comprising about 500 U. S. dailies and weeklies, a body not dominated or led by such dominant figures as William Randolph Hearst, Roy Wilson Howard or Robert Rutherford ("World's Greatest") Mc-Cormick. The first of these great men has at least made his peace with the lusty young American Newspaper Guild, the three-year-old union of editorial workers which now boasts chapters in 274 U. S. newspaper and news offices, and a total...
Mencken last week declared that "the greatest story since the Resurrection" is the now living drama of Edward VIII. It cannot be staged in Britain as a play, although George Bernard Shaw hastily wrote last week for William Randolph Hearst a strongly pro-Mrs. Simpson and pro-Edward VIII playlet in which he flung at Prime Minister Baldwin the ultimate Irish insult of tagging him "Prime Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such...
...editorial week before. An anti-Hearst committee persuaded 20th Century-Fox to cancel a proposed cinema about the Spanish revolution with Hearstian correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker as supervisor. The publisher's Presidential candidate had been historically swamped Nov. 3. At this juncture, William Randolph Hearst, whose instinct for ultimately landing right side up has seldom failed him in five decades of journalistic rough & tumble, began mending his fences...