Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This description of Ever Since Eve, published by William Randolph Hearst's New York Mirror the day after the picture's Manhattan premiere last week, was written by the Mirror's able cinema critic, Bland Johaneson. Since Hearst readers have long been accustomed to such eulogies of Cinemactress Davies' efforts on the screen, the fact that Ever Since Eve, far from being a high spot in the season's light fun, was actually a new low in its star's uneven career did not constitute news. What did constitute news about the picture-which...
...scenic highway. Last week after 20 years of battling legislative opponents and tough engineering problems, Dr. Roberts finally saw his highway opened, a 139-mi. oiled string twined around the long fingers of the coastal mountains. The road reaches from arty Carmel-by-the-Sea down to William Randolph Hearst's huge San Simeon ranch and San Luis Obispo, opens up a whole unspoiled section to motorists...
When William Randolph Hearst sold the little Fort Worth Record in 1925, it was the exception that proved the rule that he would never, so long as Hearst was HEARST, sell or disband a newspaper. But last week all rules were off in the Hearst empire of 26 newspapers, 13 magazines and assorted enterprises. The famed, New York American was dead, dropped like a cold potato. The queen-pin of his domain,* the paper that was called his journalistic "love child," on which he lavished money and affection and talent, was killed after a five-day conference...
...news which Columnists Pearson & Allen had confirmed at first-hand was that Publisher William Randolph Hearst, having hired the President's son Elliott to run his Southwestern radio stations and the President's son-in-law John Boettiger to run his Seattle Post-Intelligencer, had offered James A. Farley, the President's first lieutenant, $200,000 per year to become general manager of the Hearst-papers...
...Schurz, wife of the famed Thuringian revolutionary who became Lincoln's Minister to Spain, Hayes's Secretary of the Interior and the first German-born citizen to sit in the U. S. Senate.* Under such auspices the kindergarten soon attracted philanthropists. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph, opened one for the children in her husband's mining community at Lead, S. Dak. and financed the Parent-Teachers' Association mainly to promote the kindergarten movement...