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`` The argument that is cutting most ice is that Hearst is the only candidate who is fighting the trusts fearlessly and who would use all the powers of government to disrupt them if he were elected.
The Hearst men say that if Hearst is nominated, he and his immediate friends will contribute to the Democratic National Committee the sum of $1,500,000.
It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.
But there is a Hearst barrel.
`` It would be a disgrace, and, as I have already said to the people of Tennessee, if Hearst is nominated, we may as well pen a dispatch, and send it back from the field of battle: ' All is lost, including our honor ' ''.
`` I understand [ Hearst ] is a candidate for Presidential honors '', Devery said without cracking a smile.
The Hearst dollar mark is all over them.
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.
* 1979 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
The Hearst Corporation is an American mass media group based in the Hearst Tower, Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.
The Hearst family is involved in the ownership and management of the company.
This text is taken from a letter written by Patty Hearst to her parents when she was kidnapped.
** The television industry is mostly an oligopoly of seven companies: The Walt Disney Company, CBS Corporation, Viacom, Comcast, Hearst Corporation, Time Warner, and News Corporation.
* 1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.

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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.
I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.
In one case, in the early 1940s, Don Flowers ' Modest Maidens was so admired by William Randolph Hearst that he lured Flowers away from the Associated Press and to King Features Syndicate by doubling the cartoonist's salary, and renamed the feature Glamor Girls to avoid legal action by the AP.
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.
In 1895, Hearst purchased the New York Journal, laying the foundation for one of the major newspaper dynasties in American history.
At one time, one in four Americans read a Hearst newspaper.
Hearst began acquiring radio stations in the 1920s, and in 1948, he became the owner of one of the first television stations in the country, WBAL-TV in Baltimore.
Patty Hearst, who admitted to being a getaway driver during the crime, provided the original information that led the police to implicate the SLA in the robbery and murder ; she also stated that Soliah was one of the actual robbers.
Hearst could be hyperbolic in his crime coverage ; one of his early pieces, regarding a " band of murderers ," attacked the police for forcing Examiner reporters to do their work for them.
This drove Hearst ; following Pulitzer's earlier strategy, he kept the Journal's price at one cent ( compared to The World's two cent price ) while providing as much information as rival newspapers.
Phoebe Hearst, wife of one of the principals, was instrumental in making Lead more livable.
At the time, Hearst usually brought in new cartoonists when the artists of a popular strip quit or died, but an exception was made for Herriman, as it was felt that no one else could take his place.
In particular, her name is linked with the 1924 scandal aboard Hearst's yacht when one of his guests, film producer Thomas Ince, is rumored to have been shot dead by Hearst in a rage when he caught Davies embracing an unidentified male figure.
Her one child by Hearst was passed-off as her niece for the sake of respectability.
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.
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 the 1970s, one halftime show lampooned Cal student Patty Hearst's kidnapping with a formation called the " Hearst Burger ": two buns and no patty.
Hearst liked the picture and Getting Mary Married ( 1919 ) was one of the few Marion Davies pictures that didn't lose money.
Año Nuevo State Park is the site of one of the largest mainland breeding colonies for the northern elephant seal ( another is at Piedras Blancas — south near the town of Cambria and the San Simeon approach to Hearst Castle ).
As one of his admirers in the early 1930s, Hearst often invited Mankiewicz to spend the weekend at San Simeon.

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During the early 20th century, comic strips were widely associated with publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose papers had the largest circulation of strips in the United States.
The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily paper owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation, a multinational corporate media conglomerate with $ 4 billion in revenues.
Hearst recently took the same course with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and if the Chronicle is closed San Francisco would be America's largest city without a full-service English-language daily newspaper.
Hearst Castle featured 56 bedrooms, 61 bathrooms, 19 sitting rooms, of gardens, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, tennis courts, a movie theater, an airfield, and the world's largest private zoo.
From 1946 to his death in 1951, William Randolph Hearst was LACMA's largest benefactor.
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.
In terms of audience reach, Hearst is the largest group owner of ABC-affiliated stations, and the second-largest group owner of NBC affiliates.
Hearst, Haggin, Tevis and Co., a company started in California in the 1850s and headed by San Francisco lawyer James Ben Ali Haggin with Lloyd Tevis and George Hearst, grew to be the largest private firm of mine-owners in the United States.
These included the Tebtunis Archive of ancient papyri, excavated by an Egyptian expedition funded by Phoebe Apperson Hearst in 1899-1900 and the largest such collection in the Western Hemisphere ; the papers of Mark Twain, the object of the Mark Twain Project, which since 1965 has been editing everything written by him ; a large collection of medieval manuscripts, incunabula, and rare printed books from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries ; and the literary manuscripts of such California writers as Ina Coolbrith, California's first poet laureate, George Sterling, figures associated with the Beat Generation in San Francisco, such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, Philip Whalen, and William Everson ( Brother Antoninus ), and contemporary authors such as John Mortimer, Sean O ' Faolain, Maxine Hong Kingston and Joan Didion.
Koch Industries, Bechtel, Cargill, Publix, Pilot Corp., one of the members of the Big Four accounting firms, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Hearst Corporation, S. C. Johnson, and Mars are among the largest privately held companies in the United States.
By the 1930s, the Daily Mirror was one of the Hearst Corporation's largest papers in terms of circulation.
Some 20 years later, his mine was the most productive in the Western Hemisphere, and it ultimately proved the second largest gold mine ever found in the Americas ( the largest was the Homestake Mine, the basis of the Hearst fortune ).

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