1951 August 14 Newspaper Chicago Herald William Randolph Hearst Dead

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William Randolph
Hearst
The world has lost a colossus. William Ran-
dolph Hearst has passed into history.
He was the last of the dauntless pioneers, the
last of the indomitable individualists.
His departure will mean many things to many
men.
It will be a cause for rejoicing among the
enemies everywhere of the country he loved and
served.
To those who understood him, clearly evalu-
ated him, it must come as a universal calamity.
Those who knew him, worked with him and
held him in warm affection and admiration are
bowed with a profound personal grief.
To the historian it will be a gleaming mile-
stone, for no study of America henceforth can
portray his era without an analysis of his impact,
his influence and the institutions which he built
and left behind him in his tradition.
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Such a man as he, who became a legend within
his lifetime, we shall not see again.
Only he withstood a regimentation and social-
ization which overwhelmed and obliterated so
many of his able and powerful contemporaries,
until he remained the sole surviving giant tree
where once had been a forest of titanic men.
He will be best remembered as a militant
patriot and prophetic analyst of public affairs.
He lived to see the progressive policies for
which he thundered become law and custom; he
anticipated and battled against foreign entangle-
ments uhich threatened +he neace and
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social reforms and human benefits when he was
branded a renegade to his station in life, a traitor
to entrenched greed and selfishness.
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He found and fóught through to tremendous
proportions many and widely varied enterprises.
Yet he was a worshipful devotee of art and archi-
tecture, beauty and fine works of all the ages.
He lived in the imperial manner, was a lavish
host, but he himself abhorred excesses. He neither
drank nor smoked.
His capacity for prodigious work was unique.
His knowledge of his vast affairs was keen and
comprehensive and, while he could delegate au-
thority and wisely choose his lieutenants, he was
always and in all ways "The Chief."
To him money, as such, meant nothing. He
saw it only as the means to engage the most able
men and to forward his eager plans for improving
his products, to advance the causes and policies
which were his paramount motivations.
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While he defied the mighty for what he
thought was right in civic, national and world
affairs, he never ceased crusading against cruelty
and ingratitude: his campaigns on behalf of chil
dren, men who had served their country, even
animals, he kept alive.
To his all-embracing reverence of religions
and his ready aid to the good works sponsored by
all faiths and creeds he remained forever faithful;
his zeal for sounder education and better schools
was tireless.
His courage was classic. He was no creature
of consistency. He- changed his opinions with
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