Word: racketeer
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...Francisco in 1946, Salinger became within five years, at 26, night city editor of the Chronicle. By the time he quit to go to Collier's in 1955, he had made a name for himself by stories exposing prison conditions and breaking up a municipal bond racket, and by helping to solve a murder. On the side, he worked for California Democratic Politicians Pat Brown and Richard P. Graves, served as Adlai Stevenson's California press-relations chief during the 1952 campaign...
Unveiling a Woman. On other such coups, notably a Scribner's Magazine article that goaded the U.S. Treasury Department into breaking up a Government-bond racket that S. F. Porter exposed, Sylvia showed such flair that the Post ultimately decided her sex had become an asset. "I believe very definitely that the time has come for us to make capital of the fact that S. F. Porter is a woman," wrote T. O. Thackrey, then editor of the Post, in a 1942 memo to the staff. The public unveiling-a full byline accompanied by a winsome half-column photograph...
...alas, the pride soon changes to anger as young hero learns that cars have a built-in obsolescence, that manufacturers don't want to them repaired. And the anger, thoroughly , leads to the logic of the fast buck--you can't beat the racket, join it. So the mechanic bills for repairs he doesn't make, and for those he does...
...prestige and conditions, not for work that is useful or honorable within the limits of business ethics). But the remains: can youth possibly resign themselves to spending eight hours a day "doing that is no good," and not grow up absurd? a young man defines society as a " frivolous racket," what choices does he ? And, the more common question, what society do with such a chap...
...first to expose kickbacks at Houston's city-owned farmer's market, the first to report police shakedowns on small businessmen, the first to note scandals in the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in Tex as, the first to spotlight a state pardon and parole board racket...