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.

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.

In these cases, the position has been filled by a female relative or friend of the president, such as Martha Jefferson Randolph during Jefferson's presidency, Emily Donelson and Sarah Yorke Jackson during Jackson's, Mary Elizabeth ( Taylor ) Bliss during Taylor's, Mary Harrison McKee during Harrison's presidency, upon her mother's death, and Harriet Lane during Buchanan's.

* October 21 – Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress ( b. 1721 )

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.

It was named for Peyton Randolph, first president of the Continental Congress.

Moberly was founded in 1866, and named after Colonel William E. Moberly, the first president of the Chariton and Randolph County railroads.

In 1925 Randolph organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters ( BSCP ) and was elected president.

The march was planned and initiated by A. Philip Randolph, the president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, president of the Negro American Labor Council, and vice president of the AFL-CIO.

In the political sense, the march was organized by a coalition of organizations and their leaders including: Randolph who was chosen as the titular head of the march, James Farmer ( president of the Congress of Racial Equality ), John Lewis ( chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ), Martin Luther King, Jr. ( president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ), Roy Wilkins ( president of the NAACP ), Whitney Young ( president of the National Urban League ).

According to the centennial address delivered by John V. Beal, the town was named after Peyton Randolph, first president of the Continental Congress.

The first president of Congress was Peyton Randolph, who was elected on September 5, 1774.

William Randolph Hearst III ( born June 18, 1949 ) became president of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation in early 2003.

Many of the same 56 delegates who attended the first meeting were in attendance at the second, and the delegates appointed the same president ( Peyton Randolph ) and secretary ( Charles Thomson ).

Henry Middleton was elected as president to replace Randolph, but he declined, and Hancock was elected president on May 24.

) of the U. S. Air Force Reserve in cooperation with Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association ( CAHA ); Harold Dolan, a Sikorsky Aircraft engineer and vice president / secretary of the CAHA ; Harvey Lippincott, founder, and at the time president of CAHA ; Stella Randolph ; teacher and hang-glider Andy Kosch ; and the Flugpionier-Gustav-Weisskopf-Museum in Whitehead's birthplace in Germany.

The leaders of the BSCP — including A. Philip Randolph, its first president, and C. L. Dellums, its vice president and second president, became leaders in the civil rights movement and continued to play a significant role in it after it focused on the eradication of segregation in the South.

Two Civil War forts were built near the settlement because of its strategical location on top of the second Chickasaw Bluff of the Mississippi River, Fort Randolph and Fort Wright.

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.

( In the final three years of that poll he was second only to Randolph Scott.

In 1960, Baxter married her second husband, Randolph Galt.

" She commissioned a serial, Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill, for safety, but also Bill Brand, one of the edgiest political dramas ever, and us ... Before we had even finished making the first series, Verity commissioned the second.

The signing ceremony for the resource transfer agreement ; Stewart is seated second from left. As a cabinet minister, Stewart aggressively marketed Canada's coal both domestically and internationally, for which he was honoured by Alberta's coal producers at a banquet and later awarded the Randolph Bruce Gold Medal in Science by the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

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

Edmund Jennings Randolph ( August 10, 1753 September 12, 1813 ) was an American attorney, the seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General.

Randolph was appointed as the first U. S. Attorney General in September 1789, maintaining precarious neutrality in the feud between Thomas Jefferson ( of whom Randolph was a second cousin ) and Alexander Hamilton.

In the contest which arose over William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule bill, Lord Randolph again bore a conspicuous part, and in the electioneering campaign his activity was only second to that of some of the Liberal Unionists, Lord Hartington, George Goschen and Joseph Chamberlain.

He was born on Randolph Field ( for which he received his middle name ) near San Antonio, Texas and was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout.

Randolph Hearst divorced his second wife, Maria Cynthia Scruggs, in 1987 to marry a third wife, Veronica de Gruyter ( formerly de Beracasa y de Uribe ) that same year.

The second recorded instance of violence in the feud occurred 13 years later, in 1878, after a dispute about the ownership of a hog: Floyd Hatfield had the hog, but Randolph McCoy said it was his.

William Randolph Hearst, Jr. ( January 27, 1908 – May 14, 1993 ) was the second son of the publisher William Randolph Hearst.

Hearst, the second of five sons born to William Randolph and Millicent Willson Hearst, found his calling as a reporter and editor.

During the 1992 season, he started the only game of his career at shortstop in order to allow Willie Randolph to play his final career game at second base.

O ' Dwyer later contributed to a second book by Stella Randolph, The Story of Gustave Whitehead, Before the Wrights Flew, published in 1966.

Elder was born in 1952, the second of Randolph and Viola Elder's three sons.

He was also a great-great-grandson of Edmund Randolph, and a half second cousin four times removed of James Madison.