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Word: exposer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Portland school board suddenly sat up and took notice. For one thing, the current Ladies' Home Journal was carrying an exposé of such societies that quoted a former Portland boy named Chuck Swanman. On "Hell Night" he had been taken to a faraway golf course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High-School Hell | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Journal also ran an economic shocker under the headline SCANDALOUS PROFITS. The story: textile importers were marking up New York prices for profits ranging up to 450%. The carefully documented exposé started a consumers' boycott, sent cloth prices tumbling, forced a government investigation of the textile industry. Hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Uproar in Haiti | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Last month, the News broke Petit's exposé under Page One headlines: RACKETS THRIVE WITHOUT FEAR; WHO GETS THE PAYOFFS? Don Petit's story was detailed enough to make even blasé Miamians take notice. It listed the addresses and telephone numbers of bookie joints, houses of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ice Money | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

While venality in the press is rare enough to be big news whenever it happens, the Thiem-Harris exposé made no headlines in newspapers in other states for two weeks. The main reason was that most of the papers did not know about it; no news service had carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Family Scandal | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Soviet Art, official organ of the Soviet Arts Committee, last week published an exposé of conditions under the big top. "Only by fully unmasking ... in the arenas of Soviet circuses alien bourgeois tendencies can Soviet circus art achieve a new renaissance and become a genuine expression of the strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESTHETICS: Between Tears & Laughter | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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