Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publisher Howard's best bid by $500.000. But presently he withdrew, having, he said, just learned of the Scripps-Howard contract and the effort of the Worlds' employes. This brought from Gustavus A. Rogers, attorney for the employes, the charge that Publisher Block was really representing William Randolph Hearst, and that his precipitate withdrawal was due to connivance with Publisher Howard, that the latter would transfer to Hearst the morning and Sunday Worlds, with their A. P. franchise. Said Publisher Howard: "His statement is the silliest imaginable. . . . It's a damned...
...evening; 491,796 Sunday). The World-Telegram was said to have started out with 750,000 (the Telegram itself had had some 250,000), but everyone knew that a large part of "curiosity" the total circulation. Of all the competitors none bid more strongly or loudly than youthful William Randolph Hearst Jr., who strengthen saw his and seized the publishing-family's opportunity to American...
...different school training, geographical environment and academic interests will be distributed in fairly equal proportions. One or two noticeable exceptions to this rule require a wood of explanation. The balance of public and private school men in Adams House, for instance, is upset because men now living in Randolph and Westmorly are allowed to retain their rooms...
...more energy, more zest than most rich women Eleanor Medill Patterson, daughter of Chicago's potent newsfamily, would never have badgered William Randolph Hearst into letting her edit his Washington Herald. (He said "No" when she wanted to buy it.) Last week Editrix Patterson, who cannot settle down in Washington but gads about the country for the fun of reporting, hinted that she had espied Professor Albert Ein stein on the Mojave Desert's brim in the nude...
...Angeles last week cropped a rumor that William Randolph Hearst had bought the Evening Express, oldest daily in the city. Next day was confirmed the report of the sale-not to Hearst but to his loyal friend and admirer, Publisher Paul Block, for a reputed price of $2,800,000. Publisher Block thereby made nationwide, and ten in number, his fast-growing chain of dailies. In Los Angeles last week he proudly took possession from Publisher Guy Chaffee Earl Jr. (principal owner) and Editor Edward Augustus Dickson...