Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chosen to enact a sham attack on an imaginary position. Real machine guns swept No-Man's-Land with continuous fire and cunningly placed bombs exploded at the right time. The attacking forces to a man won their objective and the thousands of spectators were thrilled by their exploit until some youngsters broke from the crowd and proceeded to imitate them, while the unavailing efforts of a private in khaki to send them back produced roars of laughter from the onlookers. If more realism had been injected into the performance, and the ground so success fully won had "fallen...
Most notable news exploit of the Times occurred recently in the parole of one Jesse Lucas who had been in prison 23 years for murder. Sharp-eyed Editor Richard James Finnegan read a small item in the Tribune telling of the deathbed confession of the murder by another man. He dug up two female witnesses who had testified against Lucas, got them to confess perjury. Now Lucas is out of jail, making quilts which Times girl employes are helping to sell. Meanwhile Editor Finnegan is personally presenting Lucas' case for full pardon...
Other elements of the Press, not sharing the Hearstpapers' reverence for Editor Brisbane, minimized the exploit in various ways. The Chicago Tribune Press Service gave it a loud horselaugh with a string of home-brewed dispatches purporting to come from Joliet, Santa Fe, Leavenworth and other prisons. These "dispatches" said that Loeb & Leopold, Winnie Ruth Judd, Albert Bacon Fall, Terry Druggan and other more or less celebrated convicts might help the baby-hunt...
...cabinet today" and that Capone would "be asked to inform the Government at once what plan he may have in mind." But in Washington, Attorney General Mitchell stated that his Department was "not doing anything about it." Observers agreed that the whole affair was a typical Hearstian exploit ? shrewd, bold, and precisely on the borderline of journalistic integrity...
That, however, was not "Abie's" best remembered exploit. Creator Hershfield is prouder of the following...