Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Running hot in the foreground, as would be expected, were the Hearst newshounds. To the Hearst Press the House of Morgan is the "Plunderbund," the quintessence of all that Hearst has taught "People Who Think" to regard as wicked. Not only regular newshawks but Hearst financial editors and feature writers...
In Chicago one afternoon last week some 5,000 schoolchildren, egged on by their teachers, paraded to Grant Park near the city's lakefront. There they burned in effigy a wicked banker who would not buy city tax warrants so the teachers could be paid long-due salaries. The...
Phantasmagoria. The fantastic pyrotechnics of colored ink and nightmare layouts with which Hearst, ever demure in appearance, staggered public attention in the next few years are still faintly reflected today in his American Weekly (circulation: 6,000,000). Snorting brontosauri with swarms of pterodactyls perched on their backs go gallivanting...
quot;Wicked" Hearst. All these manifestations were simply the performance of a master journalist-showman run away with by his own technique. Strangely mingled in Hearst were patriotism, the sense of power and a desire to sell newspapers, with the last dominant. Hearst always loved to entertain, with his own...
The imprisoned Englishmen in question are all employees of the Metropolitan-Vickers Company, a British firm doing some work for the Communist government. They have been accused of deliberately attempting to wreck the power system. Two other Britons from the same company were also arrested, but later released; one of...