Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World Series having been finished and the fame of Yankee Pitcher Waite Hoyt having been augmented, Mr. Hoyt has hibernated with profit into vaudeville. He has a fair baritone voice and his father, Ad Hoyt, used to be a minstrel player; so he was not labeled "a freak" (i.e., one who capitalizes on his fame in an alien line...
Boston cuts pay hay during the two twenty-four hour days. It brightens on Green gold. But the men who derive the most profit and the greatest pleasure from the New Hampshire pilgrims stay are those who have among them friends to lodge and entertain. They are fortunately numerous...
...which he states that such service is not only of value judged by the service rendered, but also by what the individual himself gets out of it, you call all such service "hypocrisy and business charlatanism"! What could be further from hypocrisy when he deliberately states that he does profit by it himself and what more unjust than to infer that he does such service only for this reason? Business charlatanism is the only approach to valuable criticism in the whole article. But who does not know that there are poor men in every field, and yet, on the other...
...Urge to Merge U. S. newspapers, unlike the people who read them, are growing fewer in number. In almost every city, the urge to merge, to kill one newspaper for the profit of an, other, is strong. Chicago once had five morning newspapers; now it has only two, the opulent Tribune and Hearst's Herald and Examiner.* Cleveland, with more than a million inhabitants, has only one morning newspaper, two evening. The climax of the urge to merge is the city with a complete newspaper monopoly-a morning-evening-Sunday paper under the ownership of one man or corporation...
MACHINAL?Sophie Treadwells expert analysis of a woman who did murder for no profit (TIME, Sept...