Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first ounce as in the U. S., 5? for each additional ounce (6? in the U. S.), Trans-Canada expects to begin passenger service in its Lockheed 145 within a few weeks. For mail and passenger business from outside Canada it offers a 20-hour schedule from New York to Vancouver, and, after the transatlantic service begins, it will help get you in 40 hours from London to the Pacific coast...
...consuming personal ambition had been thwarted. In New York he had campaigned several times in vain to be elected mayor or governor; his papers could make or break small officials, but they never got Hearst farther than two unspectacular terms in the House. In 1922 Al Smith refused to run on the State Democratic ticket with him and at last Hearst knew he would never be President. And so after 27 years in the East he moved back to California and began to surround himself with a grandeur that no other private citizen has ever matched in U. S. history...
...papers to Hearst Consolidated for $8,000,000 (of which $6,000,000 was for the familiar item of "circulation, press franchises, reference libraries, etc.") in spite of the fact that these same papers had lost $550,000 in 1934. But other Hearstpapers were losing even more (the New York American lost around $1,000,000 a year), and real-estate values had toppled. Hearst was hopelessly mired in extravagance and debt and was squirming to free himself...
Once more he hoped the public might extricate him. In March 1937 Hearst Publications Inc. (a subsidiary of Hearst Consolidated) and Hearst Magazines Inc. filed registration statements with SEC for $35,500,000 of debentures. But SEC never got a chance to pass on the issues. New York Civil Service Commissioner Paul Kern and a Manhattan accountant named Bernard Reis filed a brief objecting to the registration statements as "tending to mislead the public." Hearst kept deferring the effective date of the issues. Hounded by creditors, in June 1937 he took a train to New York and went...
...other scattered Hearstpapers pay their way and appear safe for Hearst for a while: Detroit Times, San Antonio Light, Albany Times-Union, Syracuse Journal (and Sunday American), Boston Record (and Sunday Advertiser), New York Mirror...