Word: bootleged
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...complicated by Big Pa's conjuring, Cricket grows more & more restless. Though she loves Blue, she will not listen to his marriage proposals: she wants to go off to the big city, where Man Jay had gone before. When a rich stranger appears in the neighborhood and steals the bootleg trade away from Uncle Kelly, Cricket takes up with him. On the day set for their wedding the groom does not appear. Uncle Kelly has settled him. But the bride, all dressed for a wedding, must have a groom. Blue snatches the opportunity...
Despite the fact that most of Boston's suspected murderers at present are members of Irish, Italian, and Jewish bootleg gangs, their actions are far from typical of their race, Magrath declared. He described the Cero-Gallo murder case as an example of a murderer escaping through a technicality in the law. Gallo, who was acquitted on the perjured testimony of Philomena Romano, his sweetheart, cannot be tried for his life again under the United States law although there is now little doubt of his implication in the crime. Cero Gangi, apparently Gallo's tool in the murder of Fantasia...
...Loans for the account of "others." Last week this third item, amounting to $162,000,000, disappeared from the money market in Wall Street. The Clearing House forbade its members handling these so-called "bootleg" loans. The money market, warned the week before of the impending change, held steady; the official renewal rate of 2% remained unchanged. The anonymous "others" who loaned their money in Wall Street were corporations and individuals with surplus cash anxious to place their money with absolute safety where it could be withdrawn at a moment's notice yet draw interest by the day, often...
...practice was criticized by conservatives, disliked by the banks. The money market, said conservatives, was too dependent on nonbanking money. Banks saw their own field invaded, a source of big profit for them in the hands of "others." During the stockmarket panic of 1929 conservatives felt justified as the "bootleg" loans tumbled from $3,907,000,000 on Oct. 2 to $1,548,000,000 at the end of December. Loans by banks fell $1,021,000,000 in this time, would have been more had they not been forced to close the gap left open by the panicky withdrawal...
...take my religion straight and oldfashioned. But perhaps Mrs. Blaisdell (TIME, Oct. 26) by her white ribbon Prohibition of religion may be doing more good. Can't you see this "Blaisdell Act" producing bootleg worship? I can well imagine these children, who are to be so carefully shielded from any reference to a higher power, turning into every church they pass for a surreptitious prayer. Perhaps contraband worship is just what the churches need to make them full to overflowing with this intense younger generation. If this be true, I say more power to Mrs. Blaisdell...