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This week’s headline question is still the “billion-dollar question” almost ninety years after the event. Yet, additional questions are still being asked. For example, “.

On January 1st 1900, William Randolph Hearst celebrated the new century in New York City with a conflicting sense of hopefulness and a mounting feeling