Word: bootlegging
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...stump-puller on which duty had not been paid. Alcohol Tax agents, most of whom have worked without pay since Dec. because of a patronage-greedy deficiency bill amendment wangled by Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, had seized 900 stills, 119 automobiles and 40,204 gal. of bootleg liquor, made 1,583 arrests. Coast Guard cutters were trailing six rum-running ships. Enough evidence had been gathered to hold more than 500 big-time criminals for income tax evasion. Only one Federal agent, in Leesville, Va., had been seriously wounded. Only one "leak" had been discovered-a telephoned...
...Herkimer Hurricane" because he comes from Herkimer, N. Y. and because his style of boxing is a cross between that of the late Harry Greb and an indignant Chinese laundry man. Son of a day laborer named Tony D'Ambrosio, he is a product of the curious "bootleg" boxing circuit that flourished a few years ago in upstate New York, where promoters were too poor or too dishonest to pay taxes...
Infection Centre. To date Georgians have struck no blow against what shocked Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell has called their state of "bootleg slavery." Not so the lean tenant farmers of Arkansas, whose memorable bread-riot at England, Ark., four years ago (TIME, Jan. 12, 1931) made the country sit up and take notice...
...England listeners with bootleg sets are caught and forced to pay their tax by an adroit ruse. Science has evolved no means of detecting a listening set, but Scotland Yard has evolved a van full of impressive looking gadgets. This vehicle rumbles about, stopping here & there at random. "Our detector indicates that perhaps you have a wireless," a courteous bobby tells an English householder who is paying no tax. "May we inspect your premises?" Premises are inspected until sooner or later a bootleg receiver is found, and Scotland Yard scores again with its purely psychological detector...
...open to further inroads by the hordes of unscrupulous style pirates whose activities are currently the industry's chief economic headache. They contrive through spies to pet detailed information on nearly every important opening without going to the expense of buying models. They make up copies from this information, bootleg them as bona fide originals at greatly reduced prices. French law prosecutes style pirates relentlessly: 400 were once jailed in a single drive. The fight against piracy was led by an Egyptian named Trouyet, head of the house of Vionnet. He is described as "a horrible person, but smart...