Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mr. Churchill tried the trick of unleashing upon Leader Baldwin a cheeky and supercilious young man called "that pup!" in Mayfair where he used to work as a gossip-gatherer for William Randolph Hearst...
...happens to be Statesman Churchill's son Randolph. He went yapping out to Waver tree, a suburb of Liverpool rated as "safely Conservative" and tried to knife the regular Conservative candidate in a by-election last week by standing for election himself as an "Independent Conservative." Dashing about Wavertree, Candidate Churchill brandished banners reading "DOWN WITH THE OLD CAUCUS!" in which Father Churchill was defeated and "NO SURRENDER IN INDIA...
...hurried then to Boston to sing in the famed old mansion which belonged to Mrs. Jack Gardner who had Nellie Melba for her guest there 30 years ago. Back in Manhattan she was then to sing in Lohengrin, her first Metropolitan Elsa. Next week to benefit Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies she will enact the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, a great and subtle role of which Lotte Lehmann has proved herself the greatest interpreter...
Publisher. By ardor and consistency Publisher William Randolph Hearst has proved his right to the title of No. 1 U. S. isolationist. He has maintained his single-minded foreign policy unbroken since the days when he sacrificed prestige, profits and popularity to oppose U. S. entry in the War even after that entry was an accomplished fact. When President Roosevelt's message revived the World Court issue old (71) Publisher Hearst, on his lordly ranch at San Simeon, Calif., tossed his long, horsey head and charged. Hearst editorial columns throughout the land shrilled and thundered with the threat...
Tucked away in the back advertising pages of Satevepost, Henry's adult humor attracted an enormous following. Fan mail deluged him. Advertisers demanded position next to him. Foreign papers reprinted him. Traveling in Germany last autumn Publisher William Randolph Hearst discovered Henry in the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, promptly called for a secretary, a cablegram blank. Few hours later in Manhattan Hearst's syndicate chief, Joseph Vincent Connolly, received word: "Get Henry." He took the next train for Madison, Wis. There in a feverish half-hour between trains he signed Carl Anderson to a fat contract with King Features...