Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chamber. The Graphic's editors would not wish to print the actual photograph of the execution in any event." But the Graphic's editors did their best to make the full-page picture look as much as possible like a repetition of the Daily News's exploit of printing an actual photograph of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair in 1928. The Snyder picture was taken by a tiny camera strapped to a newsman's ankle. Last week prison guards carefully examined the ankles and wristwatches of every witness to the Crowley execution...
Noticing the comment on Bonfils' "great" exploit in the fishing stream in TIME (Sept. 7), I call your attention to the comment carried by the Longmont, Col., Times-Call, and which has been reprinted by numerous Colorado papers...
...civilized, but nevertheless had retained my human right to be curious about everything, my acquired interest in anything or anybody, and my constitutional privilege to speak my mind about anything I am taxed to support. On the other hand, I have not tried to prove something or improve anybody; exploit somebody or expound anything; point a moral or point with pride; sound a warning or forecast the future." In short, Dorsey wanted to get his mind Clear About Things. In the course of reading this 958-page digression you may not always agree that he has fulfilled his promises...
...frustrated in business and love), Wayne goes as a passenger on an attempted nonstop airplane flight to Moscow sponsored by his paper (as Payne went in Hearst's Old Glory}. Excerpt: "He wanted to win a signal victory, not through some unsavory sensation, but through an exploit that would redound to his honor and that of the Lantern. [He said:] . . . 'Peters, I have nothing to live for. We are both wrong. Keeping up newspaper circulation with stunts is like reviving a dying man with oxygen tanks. I couldn't keep it up and I wouldn...
Died. Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, 87, famed agricultural chemist; of heart disease; in Madison, Wis. His greatest contribution: the standard means of determining the butterfat content of milk. He refused to patent or exploit his discovery, saying "no one man was large enough to own a key to dairy prosperity." Last year he received the Capper publications' award for distinguished service to agriculture...