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friendship with Hitler

Why has the photograph of William Randolph Hearst meeting with Hitler and other Nazi officials been removed? Hearst was a very well known fan of Nazi Germany and Hitler. Not only did he travel to Germany to meet him, he published stories in support of Nazi Germany and would later print stories to convince the American public to hate the Soviet Union. It seems very bizarre that the fact he was such a huge supporter of Hitler has very little mention on this wiki page. Office worm (talk) 22:49, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Whyte Citations

I noticed that the order of two sentences quoted from Whyte's "Uncrowned King" were inverted. Quotes from that source should be spot checked. It's available from Google Books, so you can search there and find the proper quote fairly easily. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:18D:0:6363:9DA9:46F9:97CF:3EA6 (talk) 21:17, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

broken english

Can't figure out how to edit the sidebar... but daugher Patricia should link to Patty Hearst's page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Hearst

"........Hemp become never a treat to wood-pulp in other countries where hemp still was legal to harvest..... " someone please correct this grammar, its nonsensical. It's written near the end of his 'criticism' paragraph 70.170.106.156 (talk) 06:02, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

which one?==

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it says in one paragraph he was born in sf, but in the table it says he was born in ringwood, nj. which one is right?

It's San Fran Whitesoxfanatic 20:47, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The war on marijuana

This article used to have a section called War on Marijuana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst#War_on_marijuana This link is widely spread on the internet. Why was this section and all reference to marijuana removed? Robin.lemstra (talk) 16:02, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Herer is not the only source for this. It's mentioned in:

The marihuana conviction: a history of marihuana prohibition in the United States by Richard J. Bonnie, Charles H. Whitebread University Press of Virginia, 1974.
<ref>{{cite web|title=The Marihuana Consensus: A History of American Marihuana Prohibition|author=Charles H. Whitebread and Richard J. Bonnie|publisher=University of Virginia Law School|year=1972|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FrNrAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=hearst}}</ref>

In this source it discusses how Hearst paper chain was crucial in getting the Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act support built up for it's passage and it provides another source where a 1937 conference on narcotics with judges, lawyers and civic leaders in attendance commend Hearst and his papers for "pioneering the national fight against dope<25>"

NAFTA & Neocolonialism: Comparative Criminal, Human & Social Justice By Laurence French, Magdaleno Manzanárez
<ref name="nafta-neocolonialism-129">{{Cite book|last1=French|first1=Laurence|first2=Magdaleno|last2=Manzanárez|title=NAFTA & neocolonialism: comparative criminal, human & social justice|publisher=University Press of America|year=2004|page=129|isbn=978-0-7618-2890-7|url=http://books.google.com/?id=4ozF1Yg-c4MC&pg=PA129}}</ref>

This non-Herer source where they also describe an alliance of DuPont family, Mellon and Hearst supporting the Reefer Madness narrative being portrayed in the media to protect their financial interests. If in hindsight, we now see they were not really threatened that is not the same as their perception of a threat in the 1930's.

The Whitehead and Bonnie source is unequivocal on it's point that Hearst chain of papers were a solid ally and given praise in it's anti-dope message by leaders of the time and this should be added to the article. Any editor that is working on this page and the Legal history of cannabis in the United States knows of these sources. Alatari (talk) 12:07, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We don't talk about anything negative cuz BLP or something like that, right?

Sometimes it is the inconsistencies across WP articles that best illustrate the ... um ... uneven coverage of subjects. Today's featured article mentions a person's motivation as due to Hearst's opposition to American involvement in World War I. This and World War I are skipped over completely by this article. I would hardly imagine the architect of the Spanish-American War to have been totally inactive and silent about that, as this article makes it seem. Such a large and obvious gap - 30 years - a third of his life? Shenme (talk) 02:37, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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+== friendship with Hitler ==
+Why has the photograph of William Randolph Hearst meeting with Hitler and other Nazi officials been removed? Hearst was a very well known fan of Nazi Germany and Hitler. Not only did he travel to Germany to meet him, he published stories in support of Nazi Germany and would later print stories to convince the American public to hate the Soviet Union. It seems very bizarre that the fact he was such a huge supporter of Hitler has very little mention on this wiki page. [[User:Office worm|Office worm]] ([[User talk:Office worm|talk]]) 22:49, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
 == Whyte Citations ==