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Hearst and over
It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.
It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.
`` The Attorney General has been brooding over that evidence like an old hen on a doorknob for eighteen months '', Hearst said.
The Hearst dollar mark is all over them.
When Walter Winchell, one of the original gossip columnists and the most powerful entertainment reporter of his day, left the newspaper for the Hearst syndicate, Sullivan took over as theatre columnist.
Seven years later, he turned the Examiner over to his son, 23-year-old William Randolph Hearst.
Throughout her lifetime, and as denoted in her will, Phoebe Hearst donated over 60, 000 objects to the Museum.
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.
A month after Hearst took over the paper, the Examiner ran this headline about a hotel fire:
When William Randolph Hearst III took over the San Francisco Examiner in 1985, he offered Griffith an opportunity to do Zippy as a daily strip.
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.
Universal did, however, film some aerial shots of the airship over New York which was later mixed with some aerial shots the Hearst crew had filmed.
The Hearst newsreel has some different shots of the airship over New York compared to the Universal report and also shows footage of passengers inside the ship from 1936.
According to Hanna biographer William T. Horner, the episode was the start of the negative image of Hanna in the press which would be further developed by the Hearst newspapers over a decade later.
Davies was already building a reputation as a popular film comedienne when Hearst took over her career, promoting her heavily through his newspapers, and pressuring the studios to cast her in historical dramas to which she was not suited.
Fisher hired Billy Liverpool and Ed Mack, artists Hearst had at one point groomed to take over the strip, who would do most of the artwork.
In 1982, the 82-year-old Anna Hauptmann sued the State of New Jersey, various former police officers, the Hearst newspapers which had published pre-trial articles insisting on Hauptmann's guilt, and former prosecutor David T. Wilentz ( then 86 years old ), for over $ 100 million in wrongful-death damages.
The younger Hearst grew fond of this site over many childhood family camping trips.
Although the large ranch already had a Victorian mansion, the location selected for Hearst Castle was undeveloped, atop a steep hill whose ascent was a dirt path accessible only by foot or on horseback over five miles ( 8 km ) of cutbacks.
John Boettiger was hired by William Randolph Hearst to take over as publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer following a bitter labor dispute with its employees in 1936.
William Randolph Hearst took over the paper in 1921, and the Hearst Corporation owns the P-I to this day.
The designer of over 700 buildings in California, she is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California.
A lasting outcome of the confrontation over People's Park was the establishment of " People's Park Annex " on a strip of land called the " Hearst Corridor ," located adjacent to Hearst Avenue just northwest of the university campus.

Hearst and western
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.
Notably during the current retransmission consent dispute between Hearst and Time Warner Cable, the dominant cable provider for the Milwaukee market which resulted in a national blackout of Hearst stations on Time Warner systems beginning July 10, 2012, WISN was not removed from Time Warner systems immediately in an eleventh hour announcement, as the direct fiber connection between WISN and Time Warner is also provided by the cable provider to Charter Communications, which serves outer portions of the market such as western Waukesha County and most of Washington, Fond du Lac and Sheboygan Counties, under a side agreement between the providers which Time Warner and Hearst were bound to honor.
The most vocal and best organized supporters were the silver mine owners ( such as William Randolph Hearst ) and workers, and the western states and territories generally.

Hearst and Utah
* More than $ 400 million worth of silver ore was mined in Jupiter Peak, creating 23 millionaires, including U. S. Senator Thomas Kearns ( Utah ), an owner of the Silver King Coalition Mine, The Salt Lake Tribune and the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad ; and George Hearst, father of William Randolf Hearst founder of the Hearst newspaper dynasty.
George Hearst, a highly successful California prospector, became a partner in Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co., the largest private mining firm in the United States, which owned and operated the Ophir mine on the Comstock Lode, and other gold and silver mining interests in California, Nevada, Utah, South Dakota and Peru.
As a partner of Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co., Hearst had interests in the Comstock Lode and the Ophir mine in Nevada, the Ontario silver mine in Utah, the Homestake gold mine in South Dakota ( his pursuit of which is dramatized in the HBO television series Deadwood ), and the Anaconda Copper Mine in Montana.
During his many years at the paper, up to his leave as editor in April 2007, Fulton garnered many editorial awards, including a Hearst Award for long-form journalism, as well as several first-place awards from the Utah Chapter Society of Professional Journalists and the Utah Press Association.
In route for California, Baskin visited the Little Cottonwood mining district with Thomas Hearst and saw possibilities in the minerals of Utah Territory and decided to stay.

Hearst and where
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.
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.
" During a pre-trial interview, Hearst accurately described the apartment where the SLA was captured, but neglected to mention the narrow closet where she was allegedly confined.
The town of San Simeon is located at the foot of the hill where newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst built the famed Hearst Castle.
Some of the more significant cases included St Donat's Castle, bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1925 and then decorated with numerous medieval buildings removed from their original sites around Britain, and the case of Hornby, where many parts of the castle were sold off and sent to buyers in the United States.
Two alternatives were put forward: one where no action would be taken, and one where title to the Milpitas Hacienda and nearby bungalows would be transferred to California State Parks to be managed as an addition to the Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument.
He emigrated to New York City in the United States in 1904 where he was employed as a writer and financial editor at the Journal of Commerce before joining the Hearst chain of newspapers as a syndicated columnist in 1911.
He left Hearst after two years to become the business and financial editor at the New York American where he remained until 1916.
" San Simeon must have been where the Hearst money went, I certainly never saw any of it.
In 1996 Hearst was a co-founder of the @ Home Network Broadband Internet service with Milo Medin, cable companies TCI, Comcast and Cox Cable where he served as the company's first Chief Executive Officer.
In 1995 Hearst was named partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he continues to serve today.
The Ophir Mine is where Hearst made his first fortune, in 1859.
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.
However, despite a fine offensive season, he hit only 11 home runs, eliciting this quote from Murcer, " Patty Hearst could be hiding in Candlestick's upper deck and nobody would ever find her ", referring to how tough it was to hit long balls at the park where the Giants played their home games.
As such, Logan enrolls in Hearst University, which has served as a place where Logan has been able to escape the notoriety of his family and his own past legal problems.
A graduate of the University of Michigan, Was fled his native Detroit for California, and found employment as the jazz critic for the now-defunct Hearst daily, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, where he forged friendships with Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis, and Mel Tormé.

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