His loss in both elections ended Hearst's political career. In , the day before his fortieth birthday, he married twenty-one-year-old Millicent Willson, a showgirl, thus giving up Tessie Powers, a waitress he had supported since his Harvard days.
The Hearsts had five boys, but in Hearst fell in love with another showgirl, twenty-year-old Marion Davies of the Ziegfeld Follies. He maintained a relationship with her that ended only at his death. When Hearst's mother died, he came into his inheritance and took up permanent residence on his father's ,acre ranch in southern California.
During the s one American in every four read a Hearst newspaper. Hearst owned twenty daily and eleven Sunday papers in thirteen cities, the King Features syndication service organization that places featured articles or comics in multiple papers at once , the International News Service, the American Weekly a syndicated Sunday supplement , International Newsreel, and six magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and Harper's Bazaar.
Despite Hearst's wealth, expansion, and spending, his popularity with the public as well as with the government was low. Originally a progressive Democrat, he had no bargaining power with Republican Theodore Roosevelt — Hearst fought every Democratic reform leader from Bryan to Franklin Roosevelt — , and he opposed American participation in both world wars.
In the Hearst newspapers printed forged faked documents, which supported an accusation that the Mexican government had paid several U. From this scandal the Hearst press suffered not at all. In the next ten years, however, Hearst's funds and the empire suddenly ran out.
Hearst had to turn them over to a seven-member committee whose purpose was to save what they could. They managed to hold off economic failure only by selling off much of Hearst's private fortune and all of his public powers as a newspaper owner.
Davies, Marion. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Charles Foster Kane was born of humble origins in the small settlement of Little Salem, Colorado, circa A mine given to his parents — to settle a bill for room and board — happened to be rich in gold, making the family suddenly wealthy. However, Kane blamed Thatcher for ripping him away from his family. The classic picture, which premiered 80 years ago Saturday, is back in the news due to Rotten Tomatoes.
George Orson Welles May 6, — October 10, was an American director, actor, screenwriter, and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in radio, theatre, and film. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.
At the time of his death from heart failure on Oct. Scorned by Hollywood, Welles still managed to amass a remarkable body of work. Nothing Small About Him By summer , when he was 34, his weight had crept up to a stout pounds. In , he ballooned from to pounds. After , he remained permanently obese. Welles loved playing the older Charles Foster Kane and made it his habit to go to the commissary dressed in costume and full make up, including the extra padding to make him look portly.
Some say he ate himself to death, at the end of his life he was so unhealthily overweight which was the reason for his depression from the torment of losing his former glory. He had many tragedies with his love life married multiple times. William Randolph Hearst d. He went on to acquire additional newspapers before entering into radio broadcasting and television.
Named after newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, Hearst Castle is actually one mansion — Casa Grande — surrounded by three guesthouses, each larger than the average American home. He died in Thomas H. Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. During its heyday in the late 19th century it was one of many factors that helped push the United States and Spain into war in Cuba and the Philippines, leading to the acquisition of overseas territory by the United States.
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