Word: shearn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...responsible for wangling a new mortgage out of Harry Chandler, sending Joe Connolly to Chicago and telling the .Consolidated directors what to do, the man whose tough job it is to hold together what is left of the Hearst empire, is a small, dry Manhattan lawyer named Clarence John Shearn. Though he stepped down from the bench 20 years ago, he still likes to be called Judge Shearn. When Hearst was a liberal crusader in the early 19003 Clarence Shearn was his lawyer. His last big job before he became Hearst's boss 21 months ago was as trial...
...July he decided to put into a voting trust his 95% stock control of American Newspapers, Inc., top holding company in the bewildering Hearst corporative pyramid. In September Lawyer Clarence John Shearn was given full and irrevocable power to vote Mr. Hearst's stock for ten years. Mr. Hearst retained only his right to earnings and editorial control over 19 Hearst daily newspapers and twelve magazines...
...little man to whom Mr. Hearst passed the staggering responsibilities of revamping his empire is one of his oldest but least publicized advisers. Clarence Shearn intended to be a newspaperman, but one of the first stories he wrote as a New York Times reporter resulted in a libel suit. Assigned to help frame the defense, Reporter Shearn soon took the law for a livelihood. In the early 90s he became Mr. Hearst's attorney and legal crusader against coal and food combines, has since drawn up most of Mr. and Mrs. Hearst's most intimate documents...
When Mr. Hearst named him trustee last summer, Mr. Shearn called in the eminently respectable Manhattan law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, finally accepted its advice to scotch wild rumors by making the trusteeship known publicly. And in October, Trustee Shearn set up a supreme council of top-ranking Hearst executives: Thomas J. White, chief of the Hearst organization and liaison man with "The Chief"; Harry M. Bitner, general manager of Hearst newspapers; Richard E. Berlin, publisher of Hearst magazines; Joseph V. Connolly, head of features, wire services and radio; Martin F. Huberth, real-estate adviser; F. E. Hagelberg...