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	William Randolph Hearst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Randolph was the only child of George Hearst, a successful miner who became a multi-millionaire, and later U.S. Senator from California, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst, a former school teacher from Missouri.
		Hearst died in 1951, aged eighty-eight, at Beverly Hills, California, and is buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California.
		Hearst was reportedly extremely jealous of Davies, who had been involved in an affair with Charlie Chaplin (one of several affairs she would be involved in over the years).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst (2091 words)

	William Randolph Hearst III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Randolph Hearst III (born June 1, 1949) became president of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation in early 2003, and is a grandson of William Randolph Hearst and director of the Hearst Corporation.
		In 1995 Hearst was named partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, where he continues to serve today.
		Hearst graduated from Harvard University in 1972 with a degree in mathematics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst_III (225 words)

	William Randolph Hearst - MSN Encarta
		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.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577497/William_Randolph_Hearst.html (408 words)

	AllRefer.com - William Randolph Hearst (Journalism And Publishing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		In 1887, Hearst persuaded his father, George Hearst, to place him in charge of the San Francisco Examiner, where he experimented profitably with flamboyant pictures, shrieking typography, and earthy, mass-appeal news coverage; the paper remained in Hearst Corporation hands until 2000.
		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.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hearst-W.html (559 words)

	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.
	www.pbs.org /crucible/bio_hearst.html (520 words)

	§16. William Randolph Hearst. XX. Newspapers Since 1860. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The ...
		The greatest of all the followers of Pulitzer was William Randolph Hearst, who, beginning with the San Franciso Examiner in the middle eighties, by the use of methods much the same as those of Pulitzer soon surpassed the elder sensationalist because he was untrammelled by other journalistic purposes than the most profitable news-vending.
		Hearst’s task, as has been said, was to cheapen the newspaper until it sold at the coin of the gutter and the streets.
		Not only have Pulitzer and Hearst attacked some of the oldest and worst abuses of intrenched privilege; they have been the example for many other journalists, who, in spite of extravagances and mistakes, have helped to cure many an evil by exposing it to the light.
	www.bartleby.com /227/1316.html (561 words)

	Spanish-American War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Randolph Hearst's newspaper in New York documented the atrocities committed in Cuba.
		Hearst was famously (though probably erroneously) [7] quoted, in a response to a request by his illustrator Frederic Remington to return home from an uneventful and docile stay in Havana, as writing: "Please remain.
		In the 1890s, while competing over readership of their newspapers, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer’s yellow journalism are said to sway public opinion and contribute significantly to America’s decision to join the Spanish-American War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanish-American_War (5253 words)

	William Randolph Hearst
		William Randolph Hearst was born on April 29, 1863 in San Francisco, California.
		William Randolph Hearst died at the age of 88 in Beverly Hills, California on August 14, 1951, leaving behind a huge legacy.
		Hearst's opulent 90,000 square foot castle at San Simeon, California is a landmark, and Orson Welles' classic film Citizen Kane is thought to have been based upon his life.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0111500/spanamer/hearst.htm?...&tqtime=0118 (684 words)

	William Randolph Hearst - People of California
		Hearst's papers did not lose their often sensational tactics, and his use of the papers to advocate war with Spain over Cuba in 1897 led charges of "yellow journalism" to fly.
		William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills, California on August 14, 1951 at the age of 88.
		William Randolph Hearst and the American Century by Nancy Whitelaw.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/ca_wrh.htm (383 words)

	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'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.
		William Randolph Hearst was one of the most influential and controversial eccentrics of his time.
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	William Randolph Hearst
		Hearst's interest in politics led him to election to the United States House of Representatives as a Congressman from New York in 1902.
		Hearst was a major producer of movie newsreels with his company Hearst Metrotone News, and is widely credited with creating the comic strip syndication business.
		William Randolph Hearst died on August 14, 1951, at the age of 88.
	www.hearstcastle.org /history/william_r_hearst.asp (875 words)

	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)

	William Randolph Hearst
		William Randolph Hearst wrote those words as he prepared to publish his first issue of the San Francisco Examiner in early 1887.
		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
		William Randolph Hearst was born on April 29,1863.
		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.
		Hearst was interested in politics, and elected twice to the U.S. House of Representatives.
	www.spanamwar.com /Hearst.htm (1014 words)

	William Randolph Hearst
		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.
		Hearst’s newspapers lost readership in the 1920s, and Hearst himself became more conservative throughout the 1930s, eventually breaking with President Roosevelt.
	www.multied.com /bio/rec/WilliamHearst.html (431 words)

	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.
		William Randolph Hearst, the lord and ruler of San Simeon.
	www.zpub.com /sf/history/willh.html (1490 words)

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		Hearst, a grandson of William Randolph Hearst, is a director of The Hearst Corporation and a trustee of the Hearst Family Trust established under the terms of the will of William Randolph Hearst.
		Hearst has been actively engaged in the charitable activities and programs of The William Randolph Hearst Foundation, an independent private philanthropy that operates separately from The Hearst Corporation.
		He is a vice president, a director and a member of the investment committees of both The William Randolph Hearst Foundation and The Hearst Foundation, Inc.; the two foundations are administered collectively as The Hearst Foundations, although they are distinct legal entities.
	www.hearstcorp.com /news/press_010803.html (477 words)

	NewMexiKen » William Randolph Hearst… (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hearst built more than one castle, and Marion was the hostess in all of them: they were pleasure domes indeed, and the Beautiful People of the day fought for invitations.
		The mistress was never one of Hearst’s possessions: he was always her suitor, and she was the precious treasure of his heart for more than thirty years, until his last breath of life.
		Hearst put up the money for many of the movies in which Marion Davies was starred and, more importantly, backed her with publicity.
	newmexiken.com /archives/2004/04/002410.php (824 words)

	Hearst, Examined / Engrossing biography underscores the media baron's fascinating contradictions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Randolph Hearst has been called all of these and many more, and he was most of them during his long and tumultuous life.
		At that time, Hearst was using all the considerable tools at his disposal to prepare his countrymen to invade and annex Mexico, where the ongoing revolution jeopardized extensive Hearst properties, a fact that the publisher instructed his editors not to mention.
		Hearst had to keep spending to maintain the popular illusion that he was immune to the marketplace.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/07/02/RV80502.DTL&type=printable (1291 words)

	Reefer Madness!: William Randolf Hearst Essay
		Hearst cleverly utilized his immense national network of newspapers and magazines to spread wildly inaccurate and sensational stories of the evils of cannabis or "marihuana," a phrase brought into the common parlance, in part due to frequent mentions in his publications.
		Hearst preyed on existing prejudices by associating cannabis with Mexican workers who threatened to steal American jobs and African-Americans who had long been the subject of white American venom (see accompanying articles).
		Hearst was not alone in his scheme to destroy hemp production.
	www.reefermadness.org /propaganda/essay.html (565 words)

	Press Baron's Progress
		His Hearst is altogether a larger, more sympathetic figure than the vindictive, humorless crypto-fascist seen by the left.
		The measure of Hearst's triumph is that when he takes over The Examiner in 1887 he has 15,000 readers, and by his middle years he has 20 million or more.
		At the end of his examination of all the material, Nasaw confesses that Hearst's confidence in Hitler remains ''baffling.'' The conclusion is symptomatic of the scrupulous honesty that distinguishes this biography of the most powerful publisher America has ever known: Welles got that part right.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/07/02/reviews/000702.02eva.html (1312 words)

	William Randolph Hearst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) was a wealthy and powerful newspaper publisher who proved something of a power-broker in the Democratic party.
		Although very wealthy himself, Hearst fancied himself a champion of the common man. His newspapers practiced so-called "yellow journalism" for, printed on cheap newsprint that easily yellowed, they sought and achieved a mass circulation.
		Whatever the case, Hearst, by commanding the attention of a mass audience, was a force in the Democratic party.
	history.osu.edu /Projects/1912/william_randolph_hearst.htm (228 words)

	William Randolph Hearst
		Hearst and his stooge, Elisha Hanson, rush behind the Constitution, and use the Constitution and the freedom of the press to protect them in their right to reduce wages...
		It may indeed be a great satisfaction to William Randolph Hearst to know that his name was powerful enough to bring 6,000 persons to the Hippodrome, in New York, where they paid for the privilege of being a mass jury in the trial of the publisher.
		Hearst was found guilty of "betraying the United States" and the court sentenced the audience to boycott the Hearst newspapers and other enterprises.
	www.brasscheck.com /seldes/lords17.html (3062 words)

	Sean Byrne : William Randolph Hearst
		William Randolph Hearst, owner of more than a dozen newspapers throughout the country has often be vilified for his role in the tasteless, insensitive and outrageous headlines that grace the pages of America's newspapers.
		Hearst, are more interested in sensationalistic eye catching headlines that snare readers into spending their hard earned pennies, only to have them find that the story does not live up to the hype or sometimes even the facts that you have supplied.
		Louella Parsons a favorite Hearst columnist threatened the executives from RKO Studios that she would print fictional versions of their lives in her column if the movie were not pulled from release.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/keefer/ww1/byrne.html (3247 words)

	Amazon.com: The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst: Books: David Nasaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hearst lived a life that undoubtedly will not be experienced again by anybody, due to the era in which he lived and the opportunities and circumstances that era's environment presented him.
		William was in his late twenties when his father died, and had nothing to show for his age (he was a prep school and Harvard dropout), except for running up expenses when he worked on his father's paper.
		Hearst was a man of idea, though, and strong opinions, and his newspapers allowed him a platform from which to air them.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395827590?v=glance (2943 words)

	April 29 Birthdays: William Randolph Hearst
		During his lifetime Hearst established a vast publishing empire that included 18 newspapers in 12 cities and 9 successful magazines.
		Hearst provided aggressive news coverage, bought distinctive talent, enticed employees of other papers from their jobs with higher salaries and greater prestige, and increased the size of his paper while cutting its price to a penny—a move his competitors were forced to follow.
		Hearst's papers originally supported public ownership, antitrust laws, and legislation favorable to labor unions.
	www.infoplease.com /birthday?month=apr&day=29 (411 words)

	Joseph Pulitzer yellow journalism
		Surely, Hearst would have bought another paper had the Journal not been for sale, but Joseph had to live with the fact that the newspaper which became his chief competitor had originated within his own family.
		Hearst's purchase of the Journal began one of the most dramatic periods of competition in journalistic history.
		Hearst even refused to carry news from Spanish sources, declaring only rebel informants could be trusted.
	www.onlineconcepts.com /pulitzer/yellow.htm (1447 words)

	William Randolph Hearst
		Seldes reports that a $400,000 a year deal was struck between Hearst and Hitler, and signed by Doctor Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister.
		William Randolph Hearst is known as one of the largest media moguls of all time.
		When William Randolph Hearst read Rinehard, a novel by British author Thomas Tweed, he knew he had found the perfect vehicle to express his views on the state of the nation.
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