Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last word in abnegation and crow-eating came from William Randolph Hearst who, in answer to his striking employes of Seattle's Newspaper Guild, wired: "I thought [when I was a great admirer of Mr. Roosevelt] that Mr. Roosevelt resembled Jackson. Perhaps I was more nearly right then than later. Perhaps Roosevelt, like Jackson, has given essential democracy a new lease of life and will establish it in power for a generation...
...something near their appraised valuation of $1,000,000 without breaking the collection. As a tactful cough to remind the U.S. public that the Clarke Collection is still in their vaults and still for sale, Knoedler's last week borrowed from such assorted owners as J.P. Morgan, William Randolph Hearst, Yale University and the Museum of the City of New York another group of 29 historical portraits of first importance. Present were a good Gilbert Stuart Washington of the Vaughan type (red nose and right side of the face), Greuze's famed portrait of Benjamin Franklin...
Publisher William Randolph Hearst, ever prompt and practical, pulled in his fierce anti-New Deal horns in a statement made the more remarkable by addressing it to his striking employes in Seattle...
...wives whisper unkind things about his favorite Peggy O'Neal. The career of this strong-minded young man is this essence of the picture: her service as inn-keeper's daughter rendered to Andrew Jackson and his Rachel, and to the brilliant states rights squabblers, Danial Webster and John Randolph of Virginia; her brief marriage to an excessively gay sailor; her having to spurn the adored John Randolph because he subscribes to the wrong view, her serving Andrew Jackson as the wife of his nondescript Secretary of War, and her implication in scandal as the result of her midnight dash...
Lastly, but of real significance, came the fall of the yellow journalists and the coup-de-grace of the myriad straw votes and polls. First in size and length of reach, William Randolph Hearst once more received the contemptous disdain of the people of the United States as his major candidates and platforms were universally junked. The myth of his political power, long a potent factor in American campaigns, was never more devastatingly exploded, for it proved as impotent and soiled as the man around whom it hovered. Besides the end of the Hearst hypothesis, the Literary Digest and Farm...