Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Financial Times, then bought The Sun. His greatest success was a weekly which with a flash of inspiration he called John Bull. Pudgy, pompous, curly-haired, Horatio Bottomley looked like John Bull. To millions of Britons he was John Bull. His editorial policies paralleled those of long-faced William Randolph Hearst: sensationalism, flaring headlines, ultranationalism. Again like Hearst, he kept a convenient goat to blame for everything: in his case...
Ever since Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont left it in 1917 to build a medieval castle at Sands Point (now inhabited by Mrs. William Randolph Hearst), and later to go abroad and die, her old estate near Hempstead, L. I. has been on the downgrade. It was sold to Cold Stream Corp., which converted part of it into a golf club not too choosey about its membership. Last week a plaintiff with a debt against Cold Stream Corp. asked that a receiver be appointed for the property. The appointee was one Felix A. Duffy, secretary to Nassau County...
...Larger in booming 1929 was the Union Trust of which Joseph Randolph Nutt, treasurer of the Republican National Committee, was president and chairman. Union Trust could not open after the banking holiday...
Before Hearst- In none of the third generation is there visible anything-ex-cept the geniality-of the extraordinary character of whom William Randolph Hearst was the only son. Across the plains and mountains from a farm in fat Missouri went hawk-nosed George Hearst among 250,000 other young men drawn by the California gold strike. He was one of the handful who struck it, and kept it, and multiplied it richly. With mule and pack horse he roamed hardily from Alaska to Mexico. He went back to Missouri for his bride, patrician Phoebe Apperson, descended from Carolina-Virginia...
...Merck, a Harvardman who lives on a farm outside West Orange and considers himself very unimportant (except for chairmanning the New Jersey section of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment'). did the honors. Sir Henry & suite swept through the huge, roomy U-shaped brick structure, beamed at Director Randolph Thomas Major, saluted Director Hans Molitor whose philanthropic Merck Institute of Therapeutic Research occupies space in the new building. In the U. S., observed the chief visitor, there seems to be more deference paid to pharmacologists connected with educational institutions than to those connected with commercial organizations. In Europe this...