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  George Randolph Hearst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Randolph Hearst (April 23, 1904 -January 26, 1972) was the oldest son of William Randolph Hearst.
Though he never held a title higher than Vice-President at the Hearst Corporation, he was listed above many with higher-sounding titles when executives were listed in the company's publications.
One of the five family trustees of the trust established under his father's will (which made sure that eight non-family trustees would have majority control), he was able to secure a seat on the corporation's board for his son George Randolph Hearst Jr.
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 William Randolph Hearst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hearst upset the left-wing in America by being a pro- Nazi in the 1930s (for example by entertaining, in 1933, Mussolini 's mistress Margherita Sarfatti during her tour of the US) and a staunch anti-Communist in the 1940s.
Hearst was aware of this film's production and he used all his resources and influence in his attempt to halt it and prevent its release at least partially because he felt it insulted Marion Davies.
In 1974 Hearst's granddaughter, Patty Hearst, became notorious after she was kidnapped by a left wing group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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 George Hearst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Hearst (September 3, 1820–February 28, 1891) was a wealthy California businessman, United States Senator and father of famed newspaperman William Randolph Hearst.
Hearst himself acquired the reputation of being the most expert prospector and judge of mining property on the Pacific coast, and contributed to the development of the modern processes of quartz and other kinds of mining.
Hearst was a member of the California State Assembly from 1865 until 1866.
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 MSN Encarta - William Randolph Hearst
Hearst was born in San Francisco on April 29, 1863, the son of the American industrialist and politician George Hearst and the philanthropist Phoebe Apperson Hearst.
Hearst was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from New York City in 1903 and 1905.
Meanwhile, Hearst was steadily expanding his journalistic empire until in 1927 he controlled a chain of 25 newspapers published in major cities of the U.S. He developed the International News Service, a press agency.
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 William Randolph Hearst - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863–August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate, born in San Francisco, California.
Hearst upset the left-wing in America by being a pro-Nazi in the 1930s (for example by entertaining, in 1933, Mussolini's mistress Margherita Sarfatti during her tour of the US) and a staunch anti-Communist in the 1940s.
He also, according to hemp-industry proponents, was instrumental in publicizing and orchestrating a 1937 oil-and-timber-industry-led media campaign [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] to discredit hemp (an inexpensive petroleum and paper substitute) and marijuana (then a commonly used euphoric), which led within months to the drug and the plant being outlawed in the United States.
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 Millicent Hearst
Millicent gave birth to five sons: George Randolph Hearst, born in 1904; William Randolph Hearst, Jr., born in 1908; John Randolph Hearst, born in 1909; and the twins, Randolph Apperson Hearst and David Whitmire (neé Elbert Willson) Hearst, born in 1915.
Phoebe Apperson Hearst, the very proper mother of William Randolph Hearst, was initially dismayed by Millicent’s humble origins, but with the birth of the grandchildren she soon warmed to her daughter-in-law.
William Randolph Hearst established herself firmly in the social and political landscape of New York City through involvement in many charitable activities, often on behalf of the Hearst newspapers.
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 George Hearst
George Hearst was born and raised in Franklin County, Missouri in 1820.
As a rancher and prospector, George Hearst continually acquired large portions of land throughout the United States, especially in California and the West.
One of the land acquisitions was the purchase of the 48,000 acre Piedras Blancas Ranch at San Simeon in 1865.
www.hearstcastle.org /history/george_hearst.asp   (353 words)

  
 Randolph Hearst steps down as Hearst Corp. chairman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
George R. Hearst Jr., Randolph Hearst's nephew and a grandson of the company's founder, William Randolph Hearst, was elected the board's new chairman.
Randolph Hearst, 80, the sole surviving son of William Randolph Hearst, has worked for more than 55 years in the business that his father started in 1887.
He will continue as a director of the Hearst Corp., the Hearst Foundation of New York, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation of California, of which he is president, and as a testamentary trustee under the will of W.R. Hearst.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/business/96/03/30/hearst.html   (234 words)

  
 hearst1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
San Simeon, CA The Hearst Castle was built by William Randolph Hearst and his Architect, Julia Morgan, with construction beginning in 1919.
Hearst often extended invitations to visit for as long as they liked (the record guest was one that stayed for 2 years).
In 1951, William Randolph Hearst died at the age of 88 in Beverly Hills.
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 Crucible of Empire - PBS Online
William Randolph Hearst, the powerful owner and editor of the New York Journal, was one of the most colorful, influential, and outspoken figures involved in activities surrounding Spanish-American War.
William Randolph Hearst, son of wealthy U.S. Senator George Hearst and Phoebe Apperson Hearst, was born in San Francisco in 1863.
Hearst's passion for journalism began when he was a young man. As a student at Harvard, Hearst worked on the Harvard Lampoon and later apprenticed with New York World owner Joseph Pulitzer.
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 William Randolph Hearst
Hearst was a member of the United States House of Representatives (1903-07) However, he was defeated for mayor (1905 and 1909) and the post of governor of New York (1906).
Hearst upset the left-wing in America by being a pro-Nazi in the 1930s and a staunch anti-Communist in the 1940s.
Hearst, in journalism, was like a reformer in politics; he was an innovator who was crashing into the business, upsetting the settled order of things, and he was not doing it as we would have done it (The American Magazine).
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhearst.htm   (382 words)

  
 George Randolph Hearst Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(born July 13, 1927) has been chairman of the board of the Hearst Corporation since 1996, succeeding his uncle Randolph Apperson Hearst.
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.
However, there are five family seats among the 13 trustees, and George represents his branch of the family.
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 William Randolph Hearst
By the time Hearst had established his supremacy in “penny journalism,” his funds were almost exhausted, but he had gained a foothold for the great newspaper empire he was to erect.
Hearst served in the House of Representatives (1903–7) but was defeated as candidate for mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909 and for governor of New York in 1906.
William Randolph HEARST - HEARST, William Randolph (1863—1951) HEARST, William Randolph, (son of George Hearst), a...
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 William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst was born in San Francisco, California, on April 29, 1863.
The son of a millionaire miner and rancher, George Hearst, he enrolled at Harvard in 1882, but was expelled in 1885.
Hearst led a journalistic campaign against Spanish rule in Cuba, and many attribute public sentiment favoring war with Spain to his efforts.
www.multied.com /bio/rec/WilliamHearst.html   (431 words)

  
 Hearst Corporate Biographies: George R. Hearst, Jr. - Board Chairman
Hearst is a grandson of company founder William Randolph Hearst.
George Hearst has been a director of The Hearst Corporation for 40 years and is a testamentary trustee under the Will of William Randolph Hearst.
Hearst is also president of The Hearst Foundation and a director of The William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
www.hearstcorp.com /biographies/corp_bio_hearst.html   (143 words)

  
 Comic creator: William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst, the famous American newspaper tycoon, was born in San Francisco in 1863, as the son of a wealthy father who made his fortune in mining.
Hearst studied journalism at Harvard, where he was influenced by the great newspaper man Joseph Pulitzer, whose biggest rival he would later become.
Hearst's ferocious and often immoral style of journalism was soon called "yellow journalism", after the strip 'The Yellow Kid' by R.F. Outcault which was printed in one of Hearst's papers (the first to be able to print a lasting color yellow).
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 Business Wire: Randolph A. Hearst, Former Hearst Corporation C... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Randolph Apperson Hearst, former chairman of The Hearst Corporation, President of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and sole surviving son of media pioneer William Randolph Hearst, died today at New York Presbyterian Hospital of a massive stroke.
Hearst, the son of William Randolph and Millicent Willson Hearst, was born in New York City on December 2, 1915.
Randolph Hearst created approximately 40 programs for the improvement of education including computer development, computer networks, early childhood development, early childhood curriculum development, teacher training, the training of parents to prepare children for school and preschool computer curricula for children.
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 William Randolph Hearst
Hearst also utilized a technique throughout his career that brought success to his publications, namely, the employment of top men from other newspapers at high salaries.
Hearst writers played up a sensational, picturesque fact in their lead paragraphs — love, power, hate or sympathy were the preferred themes.
Hearst launched three major crusades in his first year at The Examiner: a drive to defeat an inadequate city charter, a fight for lower water rates and an extended campaign against the vast power of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
www.cnpa.com /CalPress/hall/hearst.htm   (712 words)

  
 Hearst and the Bolsheviks
Hearst welcomed the Bolshevik Revolution, characterized its leaders as true democrats, sympathized with its aspirations, urged its diplomatic recognition and continued to be a well-wisher of the Soviet Union--until Adolf Hitler burst upon the world.
Hearst's editorial response came in the slogan of that old (and misrepresented) British standby: "Patriotism is the Last Refuge of a Scoundrel." The European War, already drenched in the blood of millions, thirsted for more.
That was the Hearst policy as early as March, l918, and despite the vicissitudes of revolution, counter-revolution and immeasurable slaughter, that cornerstone of Hearst policy--to give Communist Russia diplomatic recognition and save her for democracy--would continue for another sixteen years.
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 William Randolph Hearst
Hearst was born in 1863, in San Francisco, California.
His father was George Hearst, a mining magnate and United States senator.
Hearst's estate at San Simeon, 175 miles south of San Francisco, was one of the most lavish private dwellings in the United States.
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 SparkNotes: Citizen Kane: Biography of William Randolph Hearst
Hearst went on to purchase the New York Journal and wooed much of Pulitzer’s staff away from him, much as Kane purchased the staff of his paper’s rival, the Chronicle, in the film.
Hearst let neither money nor the truth stand in the way of his quest to be the most successful newspaper publisher of all time.
Hearst made up stories about politicians, advocated political assassinations in an editorial just a few months before McKinley was assassinated, staged crimes so his reporters could write about them, and generally took “yellow journalism” (sensationalist journalism) to new depths of irresponsibility.
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 Hearst Generosity
At the age of 18 she was a petite, charming young lady with enormous blue gray eyes and a sense of humor.
George was given to long silences, but just to be in his strong presence was enough for Phoebe.
Phoebe Hearst’s name is still prominent in Lead 84 years after her death; Highway 385 south from Pluma is named in her honor.
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 Hearst
While Hearst was a boy, his father traveled through the West becoming partners in three of the largest mining discoveries ever recorded in American history: the Comstock Lode, Homestake Mine in South Dakota and the Anaconda Mine in Montana.
This activity reached its zenith after several years of articles concerning the situation in Cuba, Hearst ran a series of articles blaming the Spanish for the sinking of the MAINE with a mine.
Hearst was interested in politics, and elected twice to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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 Hearst Awards
In 2001, The Hearst Foundation and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation launched a $5.0 million Initiative in Aging to address the severe shortage of front-line professionals trained to coordinate and manage the care of a growing number of older people so that they may live independently with dignity in the community.
In December, the Hearst Foundations awarded 10 grants of $500,000 each to 5 schools of nursing and 5 schools of social work to create endowed scholarship funds to encourage masters level students to choose aging as an area of specialization.
Hearst established the California Charities Foundation; however, soon after his death in 1951, that name was changed to the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
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 William Randolph Hearst
Randolph A. Hearst - Randolph A. Hearst Age: 85 the last surviving son of legendary publisher William Randolph Hearst.
OBIT/Millicent Hearst Boudjakdji, President of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and a Director of The Hearst Corporation, Dead at 63.
Rensselaer establishes William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship; Award will be given to underrepresented students of color.
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 William randolph hearst - News and Media People > William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) in the
William Randolph Hearst's Hacienda in the Valley of the Oaks
Hearst, a grandson of William Randolph Hearst, is a director of The Hearst The William Randolph Hearst Foundation is known for two prominent
William Randolph Hearst 28 in DC, body sent to California on Hearst Funeral Train, In the presidential election campaign, Hearst was pro-Bryan.
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 The American Experience/Kane/About the Program
Hearst was a 76-year-old newspaper magnate whose daring and single-mindedness had made him a publishing legend.
George Bernard Shaw commented, "San Simeon was the place God would have built--if he had the money." Hearst's companion was Marion Davies, a showgirl whom he loved and propelled into Hollywood movies.
Hearst's campaign to discredit Welles was ruthless, skillful, and much aided by Welles himself, who had never bothered to hide his contempt for Hollywood.
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 William Randolph Hearst [1863-1951]
William Randolph Hearst was born on April 29, 1863, in San Francisco, California, as the only child of George Hearst, a self-made multimillionaire miner and rancher, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst.
Hearst was a member of the United States House of Representatives (1903-07) In the 1920s Hearst built a castle on a 240,000 acre ranch at San Simeon, California.
Though the term was originally coined to describe the journalistic practices of Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst proved himself worthy of the title.
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 ScienceDaily: George randolph hearst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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