Hearst disclaimed blame for this, but the conversation, according to Lane, ended on a tart note.

`` 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 ''.

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.

`` I'll show you '', Hearst replied, grinning.

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.

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.

After a series of legal battles between 1912 and 1914, Dirks left the Hearst organization and began a new strip, first titled Hans und Fritz and then The Captain and the Kids.

Publisher William Randolph Hearst, a leader of the left wing of the party, supported Clark.

Herriman's continued with Hearst until June 1905, when he left the paper, possibly due to the new sports editor being unsympathetic to cartoonists.

He left Hearst after two years to become the business and financial editor at the New York American where he remained until 1916.

He left four children, including John Randolph Hearst, Jr., a company executive and director who represented this branch of the family among the trustees,

While guests were expected to attend the formal dinners each evening, they were normally left to their own devices during the day while Hearst directed his business affairs.

In the immediate aftermath of the May 1969 People's Park demonstrations, and consistent with their goal of " letting a thousand parks bloom ," People's Park activists began gardening a two-block section of the Hearst Corridor, between McGee Avenue and Sacramento Avenue The Hearst Corridor was a strip of land along the north side of Hearst Avenue that had been left largely untended after the houses had been torn down to facilitate completion of an underground subway line by the Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) District.

Outcault left for William Randolph Hearst's employ in 1906, and after a court battle, Outcault continued his strip, now nameless, in Hearst papers, while the Herald continued their own version of Buster Brown with other artists.

His drawings left few public figures unscathed ; he even caricatured himself and his boss, Hearst.

Hearst Mining building ( stone, left ) with expansion ( shot peened aluminum alloy, right )

Though she spurns him when he reveals that he and Mercer left a motel in Tijuana in flames without helping people to escape, she realizes her feelings for him when he comes to her aid after she is drugged by the Hearst rapist.

In Dec. 2006, the paper was sold to the Hearst Corporation in a complex transaction that left the paper under the day-to-day control of Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group and its subsidiary, the Los Angeles Newspaper Group ( LANG ).

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

There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.

`` 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 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 ' ''.

Another Indiana observer later commented, `` Perhaps we shall never know how much was spent ( by Hearst ), but if as much money was expended elsewhere as in Indiana a liberal fortune was squandered ''.

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 to Greene: " If we find first series is not a success, of course we can brief it, but if it is a success it should be a long series.

Over the years, WTAE has aired Pittsburgh Steelers games that air nationally on ESPN, since due to NFL broadcasting rules all cable games must air on a broadcast network in the home markets of the teams participating ( WTAE's parent Hearst owns a 20 % stake in ESPN ), though the broadcast in the home team's primary market may be blacked out if the game doesn't sell out 72 hours before kick-off ( this has not been a problem for the Steelers, who have a sell-out streak dating to 1972-the last year that even sold-out home games could not be locally televised ).

Equally, other Hearst stations such as NBC affiliated WBAL-TV in Baltimore have been able to air NFL games from ESPN for the same reason ( WMOR-TV in the Tampa Bay Area is also eligible to air these games, but rarely if ever does so ).

She would have been a star if Hearst had never happened.

Having clamored for a fight for two years, Hearst took credit for the conflict when it came: A week after the United States declared war on Spain, he ran " How do you like the Journal's war?

I did not mean that DeFreeze was black ; it had suddenly occurred to me that, in the photos taken during the bank robbery in which Patty Hearst participated, you could barely see DeFreeze's face.

: Greene to Hearst: " I am sending you two sample pages of Dick's Adventures in Dreamland which start a series about Christopher Columbus.

Wilkins received a wireless plea from one of his financiers Hearst which said, " I most urgently beg of you to return promptly to safety and to defer any further adventure to a more favorable time, and with a better boat.

) Though Citizen Kane is often considered one of the best films ever made, Hearst was allegedly not amused by how he — or his mistress Marion Davies, widely considered the inspiration for Susan Alexander — were depicted, and he attempted to destroy both the film and Welles ' career.

Hearst Corporation denied he had ever been employed there, and the World had actually ceased operations eight years before Loeb said he had started work there.

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.

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 ).

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 ''.

Kafka also helped him get a job as a copy boy at the New York American, owned by William Randolph Hearst.

Hearst was a prolific buyer who did not so much purchase art and antiques to furnish his home as built his home to get his bulging collection out of warehouses.

With Veronica's help Weevil is able to get a job working as a maintenance man at Hearst College.

" After two weeks of script preparation, Wanger secured the financial backing of media magnate William Randolph Hearst, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's staunchest supporters, who had helped him get the Democratic presidential nomination and who enlisted his entire media empire to campaign for him.