by David Nasaw
]; meals at, [>], [>]–[>]; movie theater at, [>], [>], [>]; news stories on, [>]; reopening of, after World War II, [>]–[>]; servants at, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; swimming pools for, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; weatherproofing improvements for, [>]; WRH on ownership of home at, [>]–[>]; WRH’s excursions to, with friends, [>]; WRH’s love for, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; zoo at, [>]–[>], [>]
San Simeon State Historical Monument, [>], [>], [>]
Sanderson, Sybil, [>], [>], [>]
Sandino, Augusto César, [>]
Santa Clara, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Santa Cruz, [>]–[>]
Santa Monica beach house, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Santayana, George, [>], [>], [>]
Sarfatti, Madame Margherita, [>]–[>]
Saturday Evening Post (magazine), [>]
Sausalito, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Schacht, Hjalmar, [>], [>]
Schaefer, George, [>]–[>]
Schauer, Lizzie, [>]
Schenck, Joseph, [>], [>]
Schenck, Nick, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Schiff, Jacob, [>]
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., [>]
Schmitz, Eugene, [>], [>]
Schuman, Frederick L., [>]–[>]
Schurz, Carl, [>]
Schwab, Charles, [>]
Schweinfurth, A. C., [>]
Screenland (magazine), [>]
Scripps-Howard syndicate, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Seabury, Samuel, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Secret Agent X-[>] (comic), [>]
Securities and Exchange Commission, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Sedition Act of 1918, [>]
Segar, E. C., [>], [>]
Seitz, Don, [>], [>]
Seldte, Franz, [>]
Select Picture Corporation, [>]
Selig, William, [>], [>]
Selznick, Irene Mayer, [>], [>]
Selznick, Lewis J., [>]
Sennett, Mack, [>], [>]
Sercombe, Parker H., [>]
Seuss, Dr., [>]
Sexton, James, [>]
Shaw, George Bernard, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Shearer, Norma, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Shearn, Clarence: and antitrust activities, [>], [>], [>]; and New York City 1905 mayoral election, [>]; as trustee of Hearst empire during Depression, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Sherman, James, [>]
Sherman, William T., [>]
Sherwood, Robert, [>]
Shiber, Mitchell, [>]
Shirer, William, [>], [>]
Show Boat (movie), [>]
Show People (movie), [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Shriver, Sargent, [>]
Siboney Journal, [>]
Sight and Sound (magazine), [>]
Silent movies. See Motion pictures
Sinatra, Frank, [>]
Sinclair, Upton, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Singing Fool, The (movie), [>]
Skouras, Spyros, [>]
Slaughter, Dick, [>]
Slayback, Alonzo, [>]
Small, H. H., [>]
Smart Money (magazine), [>]
Smith, Al: Catholicism of, [>]; as governor of New York, [>], [>]; and gubernatorial election of 1922, [>], [>], [>]; in presidential election of 1928, [>]–[>], [>]; and presidential election of 1932, [>]; and presidential election of 1936, [>]; and retirement from politics in 1922, [>]; WRH’s feud with, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Smith, Andrew, [>]
Smith, Ballard, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Smith, Charles Sprague, [>], [>]
Smith, Sally Bedell, [>]
Social Frontier (journal), [>], [>]
Socialist party, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), [>]
Sokolsky, George, [>], [>]
Solon, Camille, [>]
Southern Pacific Railroad, [>], [>], [>]
Soviet Union: Bolshevik regime in, [>]–[>]; and Cold War, 589–[>]; and Communism, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; faked photos of famine victims in, [>]–[>]; and Mexican secret documents on Calles, [>]–[>]; nonaggression pact with Hitler, [>]; and Franklin Roosevelt, [>], [>]; war debts of, [>]; WRH on, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]. See also Russia
SPAB. See Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)
Spain: art collecting from, [>], [>], [>]; civil war in, [>], [>]–[>]; Cuba revolutions against, [>]–[>]; Liberal party government in, [>]; rescue of Evangelina Cisneros by U.S. expedition, [>]–[>]; and Spanish-American War, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]; tour of, by WRH, [>]
Spanish-American War, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Spanish Civil War, [>], [>]–[>]
Spengler, Oswald, [>]
Sports Afield (magazine), [>]
Sports coverage, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Sproul, Robert G., [>]
Staff, Kevin, [>]
Stalin, Joseph, [>], [>], [>]
Stallings, Lawrence, [>], [>]
Standard Oil, [>]–[>]
Stanford, Leland, [>], [>], [>]
Stanley, Richard, [>], [>]
Stanton, C. S., [>]
Star Company, [>], [>]
Starr, Kevin, [>]
Steffens, Lincoln, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Steilberg, Walter, [>], [>], [>]
Steinbeck, John, [>]
Stevenson, Adlai, [>]
Stewart, Anita, [>], [>]
Stimson, Henry, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Stop! Look! Listen! (show), [>]–[>], [>]
Story of Alexander Graham Bell, The (movie), [>]
Strachey, John St. Loe, [>], [>]
Straus, Oscar, [>]
Strikes, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]. See also Labor movement
Strong, George Templeton, [>]
Strong, William, [>]
Stuart, Harry, [>]
Stump, Charles, [>]
Stump, Irwin, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Submarine D-[>] (movie), [>]
Sullivan, “Big Tim,” [>]
Sullivan, Brian, [>], [>]
Sullivan, John A., [>]–[>]
Sulzberger, Arthur, [>], [>]
Sulzer, William, [>]
Sunday American Magazine, [>]
Sunday edition of newspapers, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Superb Pictures Corporation, [>]
Sutter, John, [>]
Swanberg, W. A., [>], [>], [>], [>]
Swanson, Gloria, [>], [>], [>]
Sweeney, Jimmy, [>]
Sweig, Stefan, [>]
Swinnerton, Gretchen, [>], [>], [>]
Swinnerton, Jimmy, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Swope, Herbert Bayard, [>]
Syndication, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Syracuse, N.Y., newspapers: [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Tabloid newspapers, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
TAD (cartoonist), [>]
Taft, Robert, [>]
Taft, William Howard, [>], [>], [>]
Tagore, Rabindranath, [>]
Talk (magazine), [>]
Talmadge, Constance, [>]
Talmadge, Norma, [>], [>]
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare), [>]
Tammany Hall, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Tammen, Harry Haye, [>]
Tax policies, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Taylor, A.J.P., [>]
Taylor, William Desmond, [>]
Teamsters Union, [>]
Teapot Dome scandal, [>]
Telephone Girl (show), [>]
Temple, Shirley, [>]
Tennis, [>], [>], [>]
Tevis, Lloyd, [>]
Tevis, Will, [>], [>]
Thackeray, William Makepeace, [>]
Thalberg, Irving: and Gabriel over t
he White House, [>]–[>]; home of, [>]; as Mayer’s chief of production, [>]; and movies of Marion Davies, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; and Norma Shearer, [>], [>]; and screen test for talkies, [>]; tax difficulties of, [>]; WRH’s loyalty to, [>]
Thaw, Harry, [>]
Thayer, E. L., [>], [>]
Theater, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Thomas, Lowell, [>]
Thomas, Norman, [>]
Thompson, Dorothy, [>]
Thompson, George, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Thomson, David, [>]–[>]
Three Blondes. See Blondie of the Follies
Tifft, Susan E., [>]
Tilden, Bill, [>]
Tilden, Samuel, [>]
Tillie the Toiler (comic), [>], [>], [>]
Time (magazine), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Town, David, [>]
Town & Country (magazine), [>], [>], [>]
Town Topics (magazine), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Towner, Wesley, [>], [>]
Townsend, Edward, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Treason investigation against WRH, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Treaty of Versailles, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Tribolo, Niccolo, [>]
Trinkkeller, Ed, [>]
Trotsky, Leon, [>]
True Story (newspaper), [>], [>]
Truffaut, François, [>]
Truman, Harry, [>], [>]
Trusts and antitrust activities, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Tudor, Mary, [>]
Tugwell, Rexford Guy, [>]
Tumulty, Joseph, [>]
Tunney, Gene, [>], [>], [>]
Turkey, [>]–[>], [>]
Turner, Frederick Jackson, [>]
20th Century-Fox, [>], [>]
Unions. See Labor movement
United Artists, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
United Nations, [>]
United Press, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Universal Pictures, [>]
University of California, [>], [>], [>]
University of Chicago, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Urban, Gretl, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Urban, Joseph: and Alma Rubens, [>], [>]; as artistic director for Cosmopolitan Studios, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; background and career of, [>]–[>]; Cosmopolitan (formerly Criterion) Theatre redesigned by, [>]; on Fallon case, [>]; and Metro-Goldwyn “bungalow” for Marion Davies, [>]; Ritz-Carlton Crystal Room redecorated by, [>]; salary of, [>]; working relationship with WRH, [>]; and yacht cruises with WRH, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Urban, Mary, [>], [>]–[>]
Uriburu, José Félix, [>]
U.S. Steel, [>], [>]
Valentino, Rudolph, [>], [>]
Van Cleve, George, [>]–[>]
Van Cleve, Pat, [>]
Van Cleve, Rose. See Douras, Rose
Van Ettisch, Raymond T., [>]
Van Hamm, Caleb, [>]
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, [>]
Van Wyck, Robert C., [>]
Vandenberg, Arthur, [>]
Vanderbilt, Alva, [>], [>]
Vanity Fair (magazine), [>], [>]
Variety (journal), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Verne, Jules, [>]
Versailles Treaty, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Victoria, Queen, [>]
Vidor, King, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Vignola, Robert, [>]–[>]
Villa, Francisco Pancho, [>]
Vitagraph company, [>], [>], [>]
Von Bernstorff, Count Johann Heinrich, [>]–[>], [>]
Von Bülow, Prince and Princess, [>]
Von Hindenburg, President, [>], [>]
Von Wiegand, Karl, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], 589–[>]
Voting fraud and corruption, [>]–[>]
Wagner, Robert F., [>]
Wahlberg, August, [>]
Walgren, Charles, [>]
Walker, James J., [>], [>]
Wallace, Henry, [>]
Wallis, Hal, [>]
Walsh, Raoul, [>]
Wanger, Walter, [>]
War Department, U.S., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Warner, Harry, [>], [>]
Warner, Jack, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Warner Brothers, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Warren, Earl, [>]
Washburne, John, [>]
Washington, George, [>], [>]
Washington, D.C.: George and Phoebe Hearst’s home in, [>]–[>]; social life in, [>]; WRH in, during expulsion from Harvard, [>]–[>], [>]; WRH’s home in, as Congressman, [>]
Washington Herald, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Washington Post, [>], [>], [>]
Washington Times, [>]
Watson, Tom, [>]
Watson, Victor, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Webb, Clifton, [>]
Welles, Orson, [>]–[>]
Wells, Evelyn, [>]
Wells, H. G., [>]
Werner, M. R., [>]
West, Mae, [>], [>]
West, Rebecca, [>]
Westover, Russ, [>], [>]
Weyler, Gen. Valeriano (“Butcher”), [>], [>]
Whalen, Grover, [>]
Wharton, Edith, [>], [>], [>]
Wheeler, Burton K., [>]
Wheeler, Charles Stetson, [>], [>]
Wheeler, Harold, [>], [>]
When Knighthood Was in Flower (movie), [>]–[>], [>]
White, Pearl, [>], [>], [>], [>]
White, Stanford, [>], [>], [>], [>]
White, Tom: and American Newspaper Guild, [>]; and anti-Communist and anti-New Deal attitudes of WRH, [>]–[>], [>]; and bond issues, [>]; and cutbacks during Depression, [>]–[>]; and employment of George R. Hearst in publishing, [>]; and financial difficulties of WRH during Depression, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; friendship with WRH, [>]; as newspaper division head, [>]; and taxes of WRH, [>]
White, William Allen, [>]–[>]
Whiteman, Paul, [>]
Wilbur, Ray Lyman, [>]
William II, Kaiser, [>]
Williams, Ella “Bill,” [>]
Williams, Gus, [>]
Williams, John Sharp, [>]
Williams, W. R., [>]
Willicombe, Joe: and alcohol supply during Prohibition, [>]; and birthday celebration for WRH, [>]; and busy schedule of WRH, [>]–[>], [>]; and Citizen Kane, [>]; and “clipboard” system, [>]; and European trip, [>], [>], [>]; and film business, [>]; and Hitler’s meeting with WRH, [>]; and Marion Davies, [>], [>], [>]; and meals served at San Simeon, [>]; and Millicent Hearst, [>]; as personal secretary of WRH, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; and presents for WRH’s sons, [>]; and presidential election of 1932, [>]–[>], [>]; and purchase of artworks by WRH, [>]; retirement of, [>], [>]; and Sinclair’s campaign for California governor, [>]; and storage of artworks, [>]–[>]; and traveling with WRH, [>]–[>], [>]; and WRH’s health, [>]; and Wyntoon, [>]
Willkie, Wendell, [>]
Wills, Helen, [>]
Willson, Anita, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Willson, George, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Willson, Millicent. See Hearst, Millicent
Willson Wilson, Edmund, [>]
Wilson, Gretchen, [>]
Wilson, Woodrow: Baker as secretary of war of, [>]; internationalism of, [>]; and investigation of WRH for treason, [>], [>], [>]–[>]; and League of Nations, [>]–[>], [>]; “letters” of, serialized in Hearst papers, [>]; and Lusitania sinking, [>]–[>]; Mexican policy of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; moving pictures of inauguration of, [>]; and Patria film, [>]–[>]; and peace settlement of World War I, [>]; and presidential campaign of 1912, [>]–[>], [>]; reelection of, [>], [>]; and Soviet Union, [>
]–[>]; and Treaty of Versailles, [>]–[>], [>]; and U.S. entry into World War I, [>]; and U.S. neutrality in World War [>], [>]; WRH’s criticisms of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Winchell, Walter, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Winfrey, Oprah, [>]
Wingate, James, [>]–[>]
Winkfield, Willie, [>]
Winkler, John, [>], [>], [>]
Wise, Rabbi Stephen S., [>]
Wodehouse, P. G., [>], [>], [>]
Woman suffrage, [>], [>]
Womens Home Journal, [>]
Wood, Sam, [>]
Woolard, Warden, [>]
Woollcott, Alexander, [>]
World and His Wife, The (movie), [>]
World Court, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
World Today (magazine), [>]
World War I: and German atrocities in Belgium, [>]; German U-boat campaign during, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; Hearst papers’ coverage of, [>]–[>]; movie footage of, [>]–[>]; peace rallies during, [>]; and Phoebe Hearst, [>]; political cartoons on, [>]; “preparedness” films for, [>]–[>]; treason investigation against WRH during, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; and Treaty of Versailles, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; U.S. entry into, [>], [>]; U.S. neutrality in, [>]–[>]; veterans returning to U.S. after, [>]; war debt from, [>], [>], [>]; and WRH, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
World War II, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Wright, Richard, [>]
Wyman, David, [>]
Wyntoon, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Yachts and yacht cruises, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
“Yellow journalism,” [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Yellow Kid comics, [>], [>]
Yerkes, Charles Tyson, [>]
Young, Chic, [>], [>]
Young, George, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Young Mr. Lincoln (movie), [>]
Young, Owen, [>]
Zander the Great (movie), [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Ziegfeld, Flo, [>]
Ziegfeld Follies, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Zukor, Adolph, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
About the Author
DAVID NASAW is the author of Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements and two previous books. His work on Hearst has appeared in The New Yorker and Condé Nast Traveler. For The Chief he was awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Currently Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, he lives in Manhattan.