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Hearst and is
`` 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.
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.
Hearst is one of the largest diversified communications companies in the world.
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.

Hearst and all
`` 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 ''.
On July 14, 2006, San Francisco businessman and real estate investor Clint Reilly filed a lawsuit against Hearst Corp. ( owner of the San Francisco Chronicle ) and MediaNews Group ( owner of the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Marin Independent Journal, Oakland Tribune and all other paid-circulation dailies in the Bay Area ), alleging that the two companies have been conspiring to control advertising rates, a violation of antitrust laws.
The most famous example of a claim is the apocryphal story that artist Frederic Remington telegrammed Hearst to tell him all was quiet in Cuba and " There will be no war.
Hearst did not know of Bierce's column, and claimed to have pulled Brisbane's after it ran in a first edition, but the incident would haunt him for the rest of his life, and all but destroyed his presidential ambitions.
Lifton went so far as to state after a 15 hour interview with Hearst that she was a " classic case ," about two weeks being needed for almost all persons undergoing that level of mind control to shuck off a good deal of the " gunk " that has filled the mind, as happened in his opinion with Hearst's case.
Around this time, Viacom, Gannett, Disney, Republic Pictures, General Electric, CBS, Time Inc., Hearst, News Corporation, TCI, Globo of Brazil, Aaron Spelling's Spelling Entertainment and Sony all tried to purchase MGM / UA.
However, she stayed on at Hearst publishing and remained the international editor for all 59 international editions of Cosmo until her death on August 13, 2012.
The trustees name the corporation's board of directors, and the trust does not dissolve until all grandchildren of William Randolph Hearst alive at his death have died.
Non-family executives are a majority on the trust that controls the corporation, and this trust will not dissolve until all grandchildren alive at the death of William Randolph Hearst have died.
" Herman told Joe brother to come to the office of their mutual friend Charlie Lederer ..." “ Mankiewicz found himself on story-swapping terms with the power behind it all, Hearst himself.
Hearst's thoughts about the film are unknown ; what is certain is that his extensive chain of newspapers and radio stations blocked all mentions of the film, and refused to accept advertising for it, while some Hearst employees worked behind the scenes to block or restrict its distribution.
With the exception of WCVB-TV ( which was subsequently sold to the Hearst Corporation ), all of the former Metromedia stations formed the nucleus of the Fox Broadcasting Company, while MPC was folded into 20th Century Fox Television.
In 1916, William Randolph Hearst founded International Film Service, and hired all of Barré's animators to work for him, including Bill Nolan.
The fact that former Hearst employees Winsor McCay, George McManus, and Bud Fisher were all doing very well with animated cartoons based on their Hearst comic strips (" Little Nemo ", The Newlyweds, and Mutt and Jeff ) may have had something to do with it as well, since Hearst was a sore loser.
" A 1991 history of the Hearst Corporation co-authored by Bill Hearst and Jack Casserly says the company milked famous bylines for all they were worth, encouraging the star reporters to do as many diverse stories as possible to increase circulation and newsstand sales.
In 1914, Hearst and his manager Moses Koenigsberg consolidated all of Hearst's syndication enterprises under one banner.
In June 2009, the Hearst Corporation announced that it would purchase substantially all of the stock not held by Hearst.
Examples include the removal of all CBS-owned local stations plus MTV, VH1 and Nickelodeon from DISH Network for two days in 2004, the removal of ABC-owned stations from Time Warner Cable for a little under a day in 2000, and the removal of all Hearst Television local stations from Time Warner for more than a week in 2012.

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.
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.

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