The paper was purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1917.

She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the picture book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence.

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.

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.

The conversion of the Conservative Party into a modern mass organisation was accelerated by the concept of Tory Democracy attributed to Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

He defeated William Randolph Hearst in the 1906 election to gain the position, and he was the only Republican statewide candidate to win office.

Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) was said by Orson Welles to not be a biography of William Randolph Hearst, but a composite of many people from that era.

* William Randolph Hearst was an avid lover of dachshunds.

In 1787 he attended the United States Constitutional Convention and was one of the delegates voting against the new constitution ( joining George Mason and Edmund Randolph in not signing it ).

For a period of time in the early 1980s cast-member Chase Randolph was in the skit and played a mechanic often being flirted with by a gang of women.

* The Million Dollar Band: This was a jam-session segment, airing from 1980 through 1988, composed of legendary Nashville musicians Chet Atkins, Boots Randolph, Roy Clark, Floyd Cramer, Charlie McCoy, Danny Davis, Jethro Burns, and Johnny Gimble.

He was the second President of the Continental Congress from October 22, 1774, until Peyton Randolph was able to resume his duties briefly beginning on May 10, 1775.

In October 1774, Middleton was elected as the President of Continental Congress, when previous president Peyton Randolph was forced to return to Virginia to take his position as Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses.

Randolph was re-elected as president of the second congress in 1775 in which Middleton also served as a delegate until his resignation in 1776, citing ill health.

His nomination for the Presidency was challenged by Rep. John Randolph, who apparently believed Sec.

Randolph attempted to block Madison's nomination by running James Monroe ; thus gaining the support of Federalists, since Madison was considered Jefferson's staunch political ally.

In 1862, Randolph resigned from the War Department, and James Seddon of Virginia was appointed to replace him.

She was also the mother of William Randolph Hearst.

Peyton Randolph ( September 10, 1721 – October 22, 1775 ) was a planter and public official from the Colony of Virginia.

Randolph was born in Tazewell Hall, Williamsburg, Virginia to a prominent family.

His parents were Sir John Randolph, the son of William Randolph, and Susannah Beverley, the daughter of Peter Beverley ; his brother was John Randolph.

** Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill ( born 1854 )

Hearst was born in San Francisco, California, the third of five daughters of Randolph Apperson Hearst and Catherine Wood Campbell.

William Jasper Blackburn, a Reconstruction U. S. Representative from Louisiana, was born on the Fourche de Mau in Randolph County in 1820.

A. Philip Randolph, the founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was born in Crescent City in 1889.

Film legend Dana Andrews was born on a farmstead just outside Collins, and actor Gerald McRaney, and NFL stars Steve McNair, Correll Buckhalter and former NBA star Randolph Keys, were all born in Collins.

Norborne B. Coates was born in Randolph County, Missouri, the son of Captain Thomas Coates, one of the earliest pioneer families of the Randolph County area.

First governor of the state of Arizona, U. S. Minister to Siam ( present day Thailand ) was born in Huntsville, Randolph County, MO.

* Willie Randolph ( born 1954 ), former MLB player and manager for the New York Mets.

* The Norwegian-American writer Randolph Edgar Haugan was born in Martell.

* Randolph Caldecott ( 1846 – 86 ), artist and book illustrator, was born in Bridge Street, Chester.

George Randolph Scott was born in Orange County, Virginia, and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, the second of six children born to parents of Scottish-American descent.

The Scott children in order of birth were: Margaret, Randolph, Katherine, Virginia, Joseph and Barbara, most born in North Carolina.

Bradley, the son of schoolteacher John Smith Bradley ( 1868 – 1908 ) and Mary Elizabeth Hubbard ( 1875 – 1931 ), was born into poverty in rural Randolph County, near Clark, Missouri.

* Sir Randolph Crewe ( 1559 – 1646 ), Lord Chief Justice, was born in Nantwich.

* August 14-William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper tycoon ( born 1863 )

Jim Jones was born in a rural area of Randolph County near the Ohio border, to James Thurman Jones ( May 31, 1887 – May 29, 1951 ), a World War I veteran, and Lynetta Putnam ( April 16, 1902 – December 11, 1977 ).

* March-Thomas Randolph ( poet ), poet and dramatist ( born 1605 )

Lieutenant General John Randolph Vines ( born June 2, 1949 in Alabama ) is the former commander of the U. S. Army's XVIII Airborne Corps and Multi-National Corps-Iraq.

Randolph was born April 15, 1889, in Crescent City, Florida, the second son of the Rev.

Randolph was born on August 10, 1753 to the influential Randolph family in Williamsburg, Virginia.