My Own StoryMacmillan, 1926 - 340 páginas |
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Abraham Ruef appointment asked became believed Boggs bribe bribery Bulletin office Burns Byrne Calhoun California called campaign Chan CHAPTER Charley confession convicted course Court Crothers Dingee District Attorney editorial elected felt fight Ford Frank girl give graft prosecution Grand Jury Helen Heney Henshaw Herrin Hiram Johnson Hotel Jack Black jail John Byrne Judge Waymire knew Labor later Leake learned letter living looked Mark Hanna mayor McKenna McKinley McNab mind morning Napa county never night o'clock Older paper parole Partridge penitentiary Phelan police political prison promised ranch replied Republican Rudolph Spreckels Ruef and Schmitz Ruef's Sacramento San Fran San Francisco San Quentin Senator sent sentence Southern Pacific Southern Pacific Railroad story street strike supervisors talk telephone tell thing thought Tirey L Tobin told took United Railroads urged woman women
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Página 3 - They might make people suffer, might wound or utterly ruin someone; that made no difference to me, it was not even in my mind. I cared only for results, for success to the paper and to myself.
Página 17 - Bulletin" was on the payroll of the Southern Pacific Railroad for $125 a month. This was paid not for any definite service, but merely for "friendliness.
Página 26 - Bulletin's" pay from $125 to $250 a month if we would make only a weak support of the new charter. And again: Crothers felt that the influence of the "Bulletin" was worth more than the Southern Pacific had been paying. He insisted that I go to Mills and demand $25,000 from the railroad for supporting Gage. I told him that this was ridiculous, that they wouldn't consider such a sum for a minute. He insisted that he would have $25,000 or he wouldn't support Gage, and demanded that I tell Mills that....
Página 34 - I heard of bootblack stands, houses of prostitution, gambling joints, that were being forced to pay small graft money. Nothing definite, merely hints here and there, a glimpse of something not quite clearly seen, an atmosphere that began to envelop the city. "The big graft did not develop at once, but the times were ripening for it.
Página 172 - And then it dawned upon me for the first time that my life, too, had been filled with evil; that I had done many cruel things; that I had at no time been fully fair to him, or to the others who were caught with him; that I had been striving, as he had, for success; that I had been hurting others in order to make money out of a successful newspaper; that I had been printing stories that made others suffer that I might profit; pandering to many low instincts in man in order to sell newspapers; that...
Página 5 - Brown, the Penman,' and a handwriting expert's testimony added. "Brown was acquitted by the friendly jury of preachers, resigned and went east, and nothing was heard of him for more than a year. Then he reappeared in San Francisco, hired a hall, and in a public speech admitted his guilt. No one seemed to know why he made the confession.
Página 14 - ... politically controlled by the Southern Pacific. In order thoroughly to dominate the state it not only controlled the Legislature, the courts, the municipal governments, which included coroners, sheriffs, boards of supervisors, in fact, all state and county and city officials, but it also had as complete a control of the newspapers of the state as was possible, and through them it controlled public opinion.
Página 69 - I plunged immediately into a most malignant campaign against Schmitz. The Bulletin was filled with cartoons showing Schmitz and Ruef in stripes. Our editorials declared that these men should be in the penitentiary and would be put there eventually." One cartoon showed Schmitz as a dummy sitting on the knee of ventriloquist Ruef. Partridge made speeches exposing the graft that was shaming the city. The campaign for the 1905 election was at its hottest. Older began hearing queer rumors to the effect...
Página 25 - Bulletin] came to me and said that WH Mills, who handled the newspapers of California for the railroad company, had agreed to raise the Bulletin's pay from $125 to $250 a month if we would make only a w.eak support of the new charter. "I saw that it would be almost impossible for me to maintain my reputation for honesty with Phelan and his followers and at the same time not offend Mills to the point of his withdrawing his subsidy. sacred as those between a doctor and his patient or a lawyer and his...
Página 81 - But my mind was so filled with one idea that even in the midst of fire and smoke and heaps of ruins, I thought of our plans to get Ruef and Schmitz, and mourned the delay I feared the fire had caused. I worked frantically, feeling that this overwhelming disaster must be met and handled, so that we could go on with our hunt of the grafters.
Referencias a este libro
A Nation of Strangers: Prejudice, Politics, and the Populating of America Ellis Cose Vista de fragmentos - 1992 |
 | Truth in Publishing: Federal Regulation of the Press's Business Practices ... Linda Lawson Sin vista previa disponible - 1993 |