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Hearst, William Randolph
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......policies on taxes, trusts, and labor, and Hearst became stridently conservative.Hearst's castle at San Simeon, Calif., erected from...was presented to the state as a museum after Hearst's death. His media legacy remains an enduring......
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Hearst, George
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...George Hearst (hûrst), 1820–91, American mining...Examiner, which his son William Randolph Hearst managed after 1887. An unsuccessful Democratic...candidate (1885) for U.S. Senator, George Hearst was later appointed (1886) and then elected......
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Spanish-American War
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......inflamed by the U.S. "yellow press," especially W. R. Hearst's New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's New York World...against Spain. The first of these was the publication by Hearst of a stolen letter (the de Lôme letter) that had been......
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Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
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......After his return to San Francisco, he wrote for the Argonaut, edited the Wasp (1881–86), and was a columnist for Hearst's Sunday Examiner (1887–96); his writings in the Examiner made him the literary arbiter of the West Coast. Later......
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Winfrey, Oprah
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......established Oxygen Media, which produces women's programs on cable television and the Internet, and in 2000 she joined with the Hearst Corp. in creating O: The Oprah Magazine, a monthly women's lifestyle publication. In a joint venture with the Discovery......
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Brisbane, Albert
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......published posthumously as Albert Brisbane: A Mental Biography (1893, repr. 1969). His son, Arthur Brisbane (1864–1936), was editor of the New York Evening Journal and other Hearst papers. See biography by O. Carlson (1937)....
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Foraker, Joseph Benson
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......direct election of U.S. senators. His political career was ended when, in the election campaign of 1908, William Randolph Hearst revealed that Foraker had accepted from the Standard Oil Company large retainers as well as a loan to purchase the Ohio State......
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Munsey, Frank Andrew
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......in the Sun, and in 1920 the unsuccessful Sun in the New York Herald. He also sold his Baltimore papers to William Randolph Hearst. After he died, most of his fortune went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See biography by G. Britt, Forty Years, Forty......
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Park City
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......and a bedroom community for Salt Lake City and Provo-Orem. Growth followed discovery of silver and lead (1868); George Hearst made millions from the Ontario Mine. A fire destroyed much of the town in 1898. The Sundance Film Festival is held in Park......
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Pulitzer, Joseph
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......illustrations, news stunts, crusades against corruption, and cartoons, as well as aggressive news coverage. William Randolph Hearst established his New York Journal in 1895 to vie with Pulitzer's papers in sensationalism and in circulation. The ensuing......