Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediately could he get the man he really wanted to do the job. After his brilliant performance launching SEC, a lot of people with big business headaches wanted Joseph Patrick Kennedy to be their Mr. Fixit. Paramount Pictures, Inc. paid him $50,000 for a drastic survey report. William Randolph Hearst got him to look over his jumbled publishing empire (see p. 26). Not until this spring did Franklin Roosevelt persuade his rusty-haired friend again to give up his private affairs, say goodby to his wife and nine children in Bronxville, N. Y. and report for public service...
...present at last week's Court, recently appeared wearing a mortarboard when she graciously laid at Oxford the cornerstone of an extension of the famed Bodleian Library. If she liked, the Queen Mother could sign herself Mary, LL.D., D.C.L., Mus.D. Palace gossip had it that it was excitable Randolph Churchill, journalistic son of Statesman Winston Churchill, who had aroused Edward of Windsor about the Garter King of Arms last week...
Simeon himself, a sadder but wiser and sounder William Randolph Hearst. His return from New York was not entirely a Waterloo. He was sad because he had killed his dearly beloved New York American (TIME, July 5).* He felt wiser because he had at last taken the advice of his business associates who urged him to drop or consolidate losing properties. He was sounder because he was putting his financial house in order all along the line and had just concluded a constructive deal in Rochester and Albany...
Thus unfolded were Steps Nos. 2 and 3 of the great Hearst retrenchment plan of 1937, necessitated by the fact that not even William Randolph Hearst can carry losing properties indefinitely and that he, though hale at 74, is getting no younger. His plans to mortgage a big portion of his properties to the public for $35,500,000 cash remained stalled in SEC last week and pending their approval, by a none-too-friendly Administration, Mr. Hearst's feelings must have continued akin to those of Hearst employes who still waited to see the full extent...
Against: William Randolph Hearst and Sunical Land & Packing...