Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With all the power of his vast fortune, his 16 newspapers and his granite will, the late William Randolph Hearst fought to the end to hold on to his fabulous 1,625,000-acre Mexican ranch, Babicora. His father, Senator George Hearst, had founded the property, picking up land for peanuts in the last days of the 19th century, and his mother, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, expanded the ranch...
...Cheap Tape." No one was more wary of TTS originally than Woodruff Randolph, president of the powerful International Typographical Union. But the I.T.U. now goes along with it, except for "cheap tape," i.e., syndicated features like Columnists Pearson, Winchell, the Alsops and 47 others, which Manhattan's Tape Production Corp. mails out in rolls of tape to more than 130 dailies for 50? a column. The union also still bitterly opposes the use of typists instead of compositors to set TTS copy, sarcastically calls it a "promising means of union-busting." Thus far, TTS has not created unemployment among...
...only answer in a market still upset by his 30-year bond issue of April, and congested by more than $7 billion worth of federal, state, city and corporate bonds offered so far this year-the biggest six-month total in history. Explained Humphrey's deputy, W. Randolph Burgess: "Savings money of the type you tap when you offer a long-term security accumulates slowly. You can't go to the well too often. You have to allow time for the well to fill up again...
...anticommercial forces included not only Laborites and predictable highbrows like Bertrand Russell, but an astonishing number of Tories, e.g., Lord Halifax, Randolph Churchill and such formidable lords spiritual as the Archbishops of Canterbury and York...
...more lurid struggle was going on. John Randolph, pain-ridden, drink-ridden, drug-ridden, and yet the clearest head in Congress, was fighting for local rights against the anti-conservative growth of central power. John C. Calhoun, quenching his own burning ambition, was busy on his unpopular formulation of minority rights against "the tyranny of majorities." Nathaniel Hawthorne was throwing his almost obsessive consciousness of sin into the bland and smiling face of the growing optimism...