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The Chief

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by David Nasaw

]–[>]; practical jokes at, [>]; probation at, [>], [>], [>]; relationship with Tessie Powers, [>]–[>]; social life at, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]; sports at, [>], [>]; theater interests at, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  ROMANTIC AND MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS: before marriage, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; engagement to Eleanor Calhoun, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; illness of Marion Davies, [>], [>]; with Marion Davies, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; Marion Davies's move into San Simeon, [>]; marital relationship, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; with Tessie Powers, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; wedding and honeymoon of, [>]–[>]

  SOCIAL LIFE: birthday celebrations, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; in California, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; in New York City, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; as social outsider, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  FINANCES AND SPENDING BEHAVIOR: at America’s entry into World War II, [>]–[>]; as bachelor, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]; crises of bankruptcy and liquidation, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]; during Depression, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; and father's will, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; financial worth of, [>], [>], [>], [>]; as Harvard student, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; after marriage, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; after mother’s death, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]; mother's will, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; salary and personal expenses, [>], [>], [>], [>]; sale of artwork, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; shareholder lawsuits during Depression, [>]; Shearn as trustee during Depression, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; taxes, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; will, [>]–[>], [>]

  AS ART COLLECTOR: [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  HOMES AND REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS: Babicora ranch (Mexico), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; as bachelor, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; Belmont House (Long Island), [>]–[>], [>]; Beverly Hills homes, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; Bryant Park Studios, [>]; childhood homes, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; Clarendon apartment building, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; Grand Canyon property, [>], [>]; Ritz Tower apartment house/hotel, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; St. Donat’s castle, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; Santa Monica beach house, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; in Washington, D.C., [>]; Wyntoon, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]. See also San Simeon

  POLITICS: and Bryan presidential campaigns, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; Communism, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; Communist party and other leftists’ attacks, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; domestic program, [>]–[>]; early interest in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; economic recovery proposals during Depression, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; election to U.S. Congress, [>]–[>], [>]; end of political career, [>], [>]; fascism, [>]–[>]; gubernatorial campaign in 1906, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; and Hitler, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; Independence League and Independence party, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; isolationism, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; Jewish homeland, [>], [>]; League of Nations, [>]–[>]; McKinley assassination, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; Mexico, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; Municipal Ownership League, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; New York 1898

  gubernatorial election, [>]–[>]; New York 1902 gubernatorial candidacy, [>]; New York 1910 lieutenant-governor candidacy, [>]–[>]; New York 1922 gubernatorial candidacy, [>], [>]–[>]; New York 1923 Supreme Court election, [>]; New York City 1905 mayoral campaign, [>]–[>]; New York City 1909 mayoral campaign, [>]–[>]; New York City 1917

  mayoral election, [>]–[>]; New York Journal political coverage, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; New York Journal as platform, [>]–[>]; obituary noting political legacy, [>]–[>]; poems attacking, [>]–[>]; presidential ambitions, [>], [>]; presidential election of 1896, [>]–[>]; presidential election of 1904, [>]–[>], [>]; presidential election of 1908, [>]–[>]; presidential election of 1912, [>]–[>]; presidential election of 1928, [>]–[>], [>]; presidential election of 1932, [>]–[>]; presidential election of 1936, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; and religion of candidates, [>]; Franklin Roosevelt presidency and New Deal, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–l7, [>], [>]–[>], [>]; San Francisco Examiner political coverage, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; Soviet Union, [>]–[>]; Spanish-American War, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]; treason investigation against, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; as U.S. congressman, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]; World War I, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; World War II, [>], [>]–[>]

  PUBLISHING: bond issues for financing of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; “Chief” as nickname, [>], [>]; contributions and publishing empire, [>]-[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; during Depression, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; dispute between Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., and, [>]–[>]; editorial control, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], 589, [>], [>]–[>]; European leaders as foreign correspondents, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; of French secret treaty, [>], [>]–[>]; “In the News” column, [>]–[>], [>]; interest in San Francisco Examiner while on East Coast, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; International News Service, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; magazines, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; Mexican secret documents, [>]–[>]; Morgen Journal, [>], [>], [>], [>]; and National Recovery Administration (NRA), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; New York Journal's establishment, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; news sections’ weakness, [>], [>]–[>]; newspaper division reorganized in late 1920s, [>]–[>]; newspaper promotion, [>]–[>]; newspaper purchases, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; newspaper purchases and sales after WRH’s death, [>], [>]; newspapers’ decline in 1920s, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; op-ed page, [>]–[>]; radio promotion, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; revenues for, at U.S. entry into World War II, [>]; syndication, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; tabloid newspapers, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; unions for newspaper employees, [>]–[>]; as San Francisco Examiner editor and proprietor, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]. See also specific magazines and newspapers

  MOTION-PICTURE BUSINESS: coproduction deal with MGM, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; in late 1920s, [>]–[>]; New York production studio closed down, [>]–[>]; newsreels, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; serial films, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; silent movies, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; studio established by, [>]–[>]; talkies, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; and Warner Brothers, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Hearst, William Randolph (Bill), Jr. (son): and anti-Communist crusade, [>], [>]–[>]; birth of, [>]; career of, in publishing, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; and childhood misbehavior of WRH, [>]; childhood of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; on Christmas at San Simeon, [>]–[>]; and Citizen Kane, [>]; on Clarendon home, [>]; and death of WRH, [>]–[>]; education of, [>], [>], [>]; father’s relationship with, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and financial problems of WRH during Depression, [>]; financial provisions for, [>]; and funeral of WRH, [>]; and grandmother’s death, [>]; grandmother’s relationship with, [>]–[>]; as Hearst Corporation board member, [>]; and home movie, [>]; illness of, [>]; on Marion Davies’ alcoholism, [>]–[>]; marriage of, [>]; mother’s relationship with, [>]; in New York City as adult, [>]; and obituary of WRH, [>]–[>]; on old age of WRH, [>], [>]; and parents’ marriage, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; physical appearan
ce of, [>]; in San Francisco as young man, [>], [>]; on San Simeon home, [>], [>]; spending behavior of, [>]–[>]; on theater interests of WRH, [>]; trips to Europe by, [>], [>]; and trust agreement for Marion Davies, [>]–[>]; and will of WRH, [>]–[>], [>]; and WRH’s relationship with Tessie Powers, [>]

  Hearst-Argyle Television, [>]

  Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Hearst Corporation, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Hearst Family Trust, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Hearst Metrotone News, [>], [>], [>]

  Hearst Radio Service, [>]

  Hearst-Selig News Pictorial, [>]–[>]

  Hearst’s International. See Hearst’s Magazine

  Hearst’s Magazine, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Heart of Darkness (Conrad), [>]

  Henie, Sonja, [>]

  Henry, O., [>]

  Herbert, Victor, [>], [>]

  Herriman, George, [>], [>]

  Herriot, Édouard, [>], [>]

  Hershey, Milton, [>]

  Hershfield, Harry, [>], [>], [>]

  Hetch Hetchy project, [>]–[>]

  Hill, David, [>]

  Hill, George, [>]

  Hiller, Wendy, [>]

  Hillman, Sidney, [>]

  Hillman, William, [>]

  Hillquit, Morris, [>]

  Hirsch, Hazel, [>]

  Hirsch, Oscar, [>]–[>]

  Hisgen, Thomas “Honest Tom,” [>]–[>]

  Hiss, Alger, [>]

  History of the World’s Greatest War in Motion Pictures, [>]

  Hitler, Adolf: American newspaper coverage of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; annexation of Austria by, [>]; anti-Semitism of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; as dictator, [>], [>]; invasion of Poland by, [>]; and Kristallnacht, [>], [>]–[>]; Mein Kampf, [>]; Mussolini on, [>], [>]; and Nazi electoral victory in Germany, [>], [>]–[>]; and Night of the Long Knives, [>], [>]; popularity of, [>], [>]; and rearmament of Germany, [>]; and rumored bribe of WRH, [>]–[>]; Stalin’s nonaggression pact with, [>]; withdrawal from League of Nations, [>]; WRH’s meeting with, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; WRH’s support for, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; as writer for Hearst papers, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]. See also Germany

  Hoe and Company, [>], [>], [>]

  Hogan, Howard, [>]

  Hollywood. See Los Angeles; Motion pictures

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [>]

  Hook, Sidney, [>]

  Hoover, Herbert: distrust of WRH by, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; economic policies of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]; and French expulsion of WRH, [>]–[>]; and funeral of WRH, [>]; and Kellogg-Briand Pact, [>]–[>]; lunch with WRH at White House, [>], [>]; and Mayer, [>], [>]–[>]; presidency of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; and presidential election of 1928, [>]–[>], [>]; and presidential election of 1932, [>]; as secretary of commerce, [>]; war debt plan of, [>]; and World Court, [>]–[>]

  Hoover, J. Edgar, [>]

  Hopalong Cassidy (comic), [>]

  Hopkins, Mark, [>]

  Hopper, Hedda, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Horn, John, [>]

  Horse stables and horseback riding, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  House, Colonel Edward, [>]

  House Beautiful (magazine), [>], [>]

  House Un-American Activities Committee, [>]–589, [>]–[>]

  Houseman, John, [>]

  Houston Chronicle, [>]

  Howard, John Galen, [>]

  Howard, Leslie, [>]

  Howard, Roy, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Howe, Julia Ward, [>]

  Howe, Louis, [>], [>]

  Howey, Walter, [>]

  Huberth, Martin, [>], [>], [>]

  Huerta, Victoriano, [>], [>]

  Hughes, Charles Evans, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Hughes, Rupert, [>]

  Hull, Cordell, [>], [>]–[>]

  Humoresque (movie), [>], [>]

  Hunt, Richard Howland, [>]

  Hunter, Robert, [>]

  Huntington, Collis, [>]

  Hurst, Fannie, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Huston, Walter, [>]

  Hutchins, Robert Maynard, [>], [>]–[>]

  Hutton, Barbara, [>]

  Huxley, Aldous, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Hylan, John, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Ickes, Harold, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Ihmsen, Maximilian F.: and Independence League, [>]–[>]; at Los Angeles Examiner, [>]; and motion-picture business, [>]–[>]; and Municipal Ownership League, [>]; and National Association of Democratic Clubs, [>]–[>], [>]; and New York 1906 gubernatorial campaign, [>]; and New York City 1905 mayoral campaign, [>], [>]–[>]; as New York County sheriff candidate, [>]–[>]; and WRH's presidential bid, [>]

  Immigrants, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  “In the News” column, [>]–[>], [>]

  Ince, Tom, [>], [>]–[>]

  Income tax. See Tax policies

  Income Tax Bureau, [>]

  Independence League and Independence party, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Ingersoll, Ralph, [>]

  I.N.S. See International News Service (I.N.S.)

  International Film Company, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  International Magazine Company, [>]

  International Monetary and Economic Conference, [>]–[>]

  International News Service (I.N.S.), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  International Publishers, [>]

  International Studio Arts Corporation, [>], [>]

  Interstate Commerce Commission, [>], [>]

  Intolerance (movie), [>]

  Irish-Americans, [>], [>]

  Iriye, Akira, [>]

  Isolationism, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Italy, [>]–[>], [>]. See also Mussolini, Benito

  Ivan the Terrible, [>]

  Jabotinsky, Vladimir, [>]

  Jackson, Andrew, [>]–[>]

  Jaffery (movie), [>]

  Janis, Elsie, [>], [>]

  Japan: in films, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; invasion of China by, [>]; invasion of Manchuria by, [>]; navy of, [>]–[>]; and Russo-Japanese War, [>]; and Treaty of Versailles, [>]; WRH on history of, [>]; WRH’s fear of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Jazz Singer, The (movie), [>]

  Jennings, Dean, [>], [>]

  Jewett, Helen, [>]

  Jewish American, [>]

  Jews: anti-Semitism, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; in comic strip Abie the Agent, [>]; German Jews as New York social elite, [>]; as Hearst political supporters, [>]; homeland for, [>], [>]; loss of support for WRH by, [>]–[>]; massacre of, in Russia, [>]; motion picture about, [>]; and pogroms in Poland, [>]; and Republican party, [>]; Russian-Jewish immigrants, [>], [>], [>], [>]; U.S. Jews and Hitler, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; WRH’s interest in, as newspaper readers, [>]; and Zionism, [>]

  Johnson, Alva, [>]

  Johnson, Grove, [>]–[>]

  Johnson, Hiram, [>], [>], [>]

  Johnston, Julianne, [>]

  Johnstone, Justine, [>]

  Jolson, Al, [>], [>]

  Jones, Alex S., [>]

  Jones, James, [>]

  Jones, John Paul, [>]

  Jones, Marjorie, [>]

  Jordan, David Starr, [>]

  Josephson, Matthew, [>]

  Journalist (journal), [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Joyce, Alice, [>]

  J. P. Morgan & Co., [>]

  Juergens, George, [>]

  Julius Caesar (play), [>]

  Justice Department, [>]

  Katzenjammer Kids (comic), [>], [>], [>]

  Keehn, Roy, [>]–[>]

  Keep, Nigel, [>]

  Keller, John W., [>]

  Kellogg, Frank Billings, [>]

  Kellogg-Briand Pact, [>], [>]–[>]

  Kelly, Florence Finch, [>]

 
Kenna, “Hinky Dink,” [>]

  Kennedy, Eunice, [>]

  Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, [>]

  Kennedy, John A., [>]

  Kennedy, John F. (Jack), [>], [>]

  Kennedy, Joseph P.: on financial security for Marion Davies, [>], [>]; friendship with Marion Davies, [>], [>]; and funeral of Marion Davies, [>]; and Gloria Swanson, [>]; and John Hanes, [>]; purchase offer Hearst magazine, [>]; and Franklin Roosevelt’s election in 1932, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; at SEC, [>], [>], [>]; visits with WRH at Wyntoon, [>]; and WRH’s virtual bankruptcy during Depression, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Kennedy, Pat, [>]

  Kern, Jerome, [>]

  Kershaw, Ian, [>], [>]

  Kilgallen, Dorothy, [>]

  Kilpatrick, William H., [>]

  King, Robert B., [>]–[>]

  King Feature Service, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Kingsley, Grace, [>]

  Kinkaid, Mary, [>]

  Kipling, Rudyard, [>]

  Kitty Foyle (movie), [>]

  Klein, Henry, [>]

  Knickerbocker, Cholly, [>], [>], [>]

  Knox, Frank, [>], [>], [>]

  Koenigsberg, Moses, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Krazy Kat (comic), [>], [>], [>]

  Krock, Arthur, [>]

  La Cava, Gregory, [>]

  Labor movement, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]. See also Strikes

  Laemmle, Carl, [>]

  LaFeber, Walter, [>]

  LaFollette, Robert, [>], [>]

  Lake, Pat, [>]

  Landon, Alfred, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Landsdowne, Lord, [>]

  Lane, Franklin K., [>]

  Lansing, Robert, [>], [>]

  Lasky, Jesse, [>]

  Lawford, Peter, [>]

  Lawrence, Andrew, [>]

  Leab, Daniel, [>]

  League of Nations, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  LeBaron, William, [>], [>], [>]

  Lederer, Charles, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Lederer, George, [>]

  Lederer, Pepi, [>]

  Lent, Eugene, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Lent, William, [>]

  LeRoy, Mervyn, [>]

  Leslie’s Monthly (magazine), [>

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