He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.

Among the outstanding members of the Hearst cabinet whom he successfully opposed for a time were the great Arthur Brisbane, Bradford Merrill, S.S. Carvalho, and Colonel Van Hamm.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

Of course, if you don't make the American a success, Hearst will have no further use for you ''.

Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.

`` The Attorney General has been brooding over that evidence like an old hen on a doorknob for eighteen months '', Hearst said.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

Just when it was needed for the campaign, Hearst Paper No. 8, the Boston American, began publication.

In his own state of New York, the two Democratic bellwethers, State Leader Hill and Tammany Boss Murphy, were saying nothing openly against Hearst but industriously boosting their own favorites, Murphy being for Cleveland and Hill for Parker.

`` I understand [ Hearst ] is a candidate for Presidential honors '', Devery said without cracking a smile.

In his fight for the Illinois and Indiana delegations, Hearst made several trips to Chicago to confer with Andrew Lawrence, the former San Francisco Examiner man who was now his Chicago kingpin, and once to meet with Bryan.

Koenigsberg never did learn what Hearst wanted, for the latter shook hands and moved toward the door.

Another editor pointed despairingly at a bundle of letters that had accumulated for him, saying, `` But Mr. Hearst, what shall I do with this correspondence ''??

Hearst hopped into a private railroad car with Max Ihmsen and made an arduous personal canvass for delegates in the western and southern states, always wearing a frock coat, listening intently to local politicians, and generally making a good impression.

Hearst Corp. continued using the name Advertiser for its Sunday paper until the early 1970s.

When Dirks left William Randolph Hearst for the promise of a better salary under Joseph Pulitzer, it was an unusual move, since cartoonists regularly deserted Pulitzer for Hearst.

Hearst was notorious for his practice of yellow journalism, and he was frowned on by readers of The New York Times and other newspapers which featured few or no comic strips.

He was the Hearst newspapers ' baseball columnist for many years, beginning in 1911, and his knack for spotting the eccentric and the unusual, on the field or in the stands, is credited with revolutionizing the way baseball was covered.

In some television commercials Hearst III was shown having a conversation with his grandfather's portrait.

Frank Bartholomew, the last UP president to ascend to the agency's top job directly from its news, rather than sales, ranks, took over in 1955, and according to his cited autobiography, was obsessed with merging UP with the International News Service, a news agency that had been founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909 following Scripps ' lead.

" However, according to Hearst interviewer Margaret Singer, a noted authority on prisoner of war and other victims including Maryknoll priests released from the People's Republic of China in the 1950s, this is not unusual in such cases.

When Kozol testified, Hearst turned “ the dead white color of a fish ’ s belly ,” according to journalist Shana Alexander.

* William Randolph Hearst American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher who, according to Guy Span " had been supporting a populist campaign against the so-called " Traction Trusts " for years "

On the corner of Hearst Avenue and Gayley Road, in Berkeley, California, lies the Founders ' Rock, the spot, according to college lore, where the 12 trustees of the College of California, the nascent University of California, Berkeley, stood on April 16, 1860, to dedicate the property they had just purchased.

On the corner of Hearst Avenue and Gayley Road, in Berkeley, California, lies the Founders ' Rock, the spot, according to college lore, where the 12 trustees of the future University of California, Berkeley, stood on April 16, 1860, to dedicate the property they had just purchased.

The piece ran on over-the-top satire and explicit bias: Heinz was introduced holding a giant pickle ; Dean Jennings of the Newspaper Guild trounced Hearst in a boxing match ; and a clown ( played by actor Norman Lloyd ) served as master-of-ceremonies for the entire production, according to Cosgrove.

In January 2011, Hachette announced its intention to close Sugar magazine in March 2011 as part of a proposed sale of the group's magazine titles to Hearst Corporation, due to the decline of subscribers over the previous five years from 250, 099 to 113, 320 according to ABC.

`` Mr. Lane '', Hearst said, `` if you ever wish anything that I can do, all you will have to do will be to send me a telegram asking, and it will be done ''.

`` Mr. Hearst '', Lane replied as he left, `` if you ever get a telegram from me asking you to do anything, you can put the telegram down as a forgery ''.

According to The New York Times, Chairman Lane was selected since he was one of the few California Democrats who had fought the railroads and who was not beholden to Hearst.

Hearst ultimately ended up purchasing the Daily Advertiser in 1917.

Hearst had previously been signed with MGM, but ended the association after a dispute with the company's head producer Irving Thalberg over the treatment of Hearst's long standing mistress, actress Marion Davies, who was struggling for box office success.

While most of the exposition was demolished when the exposition ended, the Palace was so beloved that a Palace Preservation League, founded by Phoebe Apperson Hearst, was founded while the fair was still in progress.

Hearst had previously been signed with MGM, but he ended his ties with the company after a dispute with the company's head producer Irving Thalberg over the treatment of Marion Davies ; Davies was a longtime mistress of Hearst, and was now struggling to draw box office success.

By the end of 1898, Western pilgrims started coming to Akka on pilgrimage to visit ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ; this group of pilgrims, including Phoebe Hearst, was the first time that Bahá ' ís raised up in the West had met ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

He closed on the deal after 30 hours of talks with Hearst and newspaper unions — and five hours after Hearst had sent out notices to newsroom employees telling them they were terminated.

A spin-off, " People's Park Annex ," was established at the same time by activist citizens of Berkeley on a strip of land above the Bay Area Rapid Transit subway construction along Hearst Avenue northwest of the U. C.

After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.

In November 2006, Reilly's attorney presented to U. S. District Judge Susan Illston a letter from Hearst senior vice president James Asher to MediaNews President Jody Lodovic that said the two companies agreed to " offer national advertising and internet advertising sales for their San Francisco Bay area newspapers on a joint basis, and to consolidate the San Francisco Bay Area distribution networks of such newspapers ..." Illston, suggesting she had been misled by the companies when they said they had not been collaborating, issued a 14-page ruling forbidding Hearst and MediaNews from working together on national advertising sales or distribution.

When released on May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane — based in part on the life of William Randolph Hearst — did not do much business at theaters ; Hearst owned numerous major newspapers, and forbade them to carry advertisements for the film.

Soon after their marriage on June 15, 1862, the couple moved to San Francisco, California, where Phoebe gave birth to their only child, William Randolph Hearst, on April 29, 1863.

In November 1898 Hearst, with Lua Getsinger and others, stopped off at Paris briefly on their way to Palestine and was shocked to see May Bolles ( later Maxwell ) bedridden with the chronic malady which had afflicted her.

* 1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.

Pulitzer's approach made an impression on William Randolph Hearst, a mining heir who acquired the San Francisco Examiner from his father in 1887.

William Randolph Hearst | Hearst's treatment was more effective and focused on the enemy who set the bomb — and offered a huge reward to readers