Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RANDOLPH RAVEN...
...behind them came a bargain-counter rush in medieval halberds and maces, paneled Tudor interiors, stained-glass windows, Louis XIV chairs, a heterogeneous collection of like knickknacks. The flush market was fed by the breaking up of such huge, tax-harried U.S. estates and collections as those of William Randolph Hearst, Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs. Christian R. Holmes...
Last week the Spaniard was bidding for the year's prize white elephant, William Randolph Hearst's $500,000 dismantled Spanish monastery. Marked down to a mere $19,000, it involved an important joker: the buyer must cart it away. Even to a nearby site, the freight would run into big money...
...list included William Randolph Hearst's friend William Griffin, violently anti-British publisher of the New York Enquirer; wild-eyed, red-haired Mrs. Elizabeth (Red Network) Billing, Gerald B. Winrod, publisher of the Defender, notorious preacher of racial and religious intolerance; Prescott Freeze Dennett, organizer of the Islands for War Debts Committee, operator of a one-man isolationist news service (an Army draftee, he was arrested in a St. Louis barracks); Nazi Agent George Sylvester Viereck, now in prison for failing to disclose in full his connection with the Nazi Government...
...friend of William Randolph Hearst, whom he visits at San Simeon and with whom he sometimes exchanges public telegrams on public questions on the front pages of Hearst newspapers. Hearst likes him so well that his papers have started several abortive booms: "Griffin-for-Mayor," "Griffin-for-Senator," and report his comings & goings as if he were somebody. Most of Griffin's trips have been to Eire, where he made himself popular by clamoring for Irish independence. When he launched the Enquirer in 1926 he became one of the most violent Anglophobes and isolationists in the U.S. His paper...