Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps it was Bishop Cannon, whose brain Publisher William Randolph Hearst has called "the best in America," who was responsible for Mencken's diminishing fire on the religious booboisie. And perhaps it was his own tax bills which inspired Editor Mencken suddenly to start firing in his American Mercury last week, with all his oldtime noise but with not quite the cleverness of his oldtime savagery, at a new national target: the High Cost of Public Education...
...William Randolph ("Young Bill") Hearst Jr. owns an amphibian plane which he allows to do double duty for his father's New York American and New York Evening Journal. Last week he sent it out, carrying a reporter and cameraman, to find a schooner missing in storm-swept Long Island Sound with eight men and two women aboard. The plane spotted the passengers & crew marooned at a lighthouse. Boasted the American: N. Y AMERICAN PLANE FINDS 10 LOST IN BOAT. Shouted the Journal: 10 TELL JOURNAL PLANE RESCUE. Of all other Manhattan papers, only the conscientious Times bothered...
Persons in Chicago last week who telephoned Randolph 2121 were greeted thus: "This is the Herald & Examiner urging you to buy American-made goods...
...Randolph Hearst's Boston American. Not a line about the decision appeared in print...
...idea, adapted from the "Buy British" movement-(see p. 23), have been mushrooming for the last half year. When the Saturday Evening Post featured an exhortation by Samuel George Blythe to "Buy American" early last month, the movement assumed nation-wide proportions. And last week in its behalf William Randolph Hearst turned on his big publicity machine...