The Press: Hearst v. Hoover

Publisher William Randolph Hearst, as everyone knows, possesses 28 U. S. newspapers. His public is composed, he slogans, of 20 million people−"People Who Think." Whenever he is moved to expound his personal views in public, all he needs to do is notify his nearest editor and the land will soon be flooded with pungent paragraphs over the cramped, irregular, sharp-slanting Hearst signature.

Crossing the continent last fortnight from California−to join Mrs. Hearst in Manhattan, as he does at least once each year (wedding anniversary)−Mr. Hearst...

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