Word: bootlegs
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...Flashing a sheaf of documents, he informed an astonished N. M. A. delegation that the president-elect of the Negro National Medical Association, Dr. Jesse Leonidas Leach of Flint, Mich., had been fined by a Michigan Federal district court in 1928 'for selling twelve quarts of bootleg "Sandy MacDonald" Scotch to disguised Federal agents. Furious, N. M. A. leaders spread the news to all 2,000 N. M. A. members...
...Fewer meat inspectors; more bootleg slaughtering; more food poisoning due to spoilage of hoarded foods...
...German mark is a questionable currency based on some microscopic amount of gold. The Italian lira is practically fiat money. The Russian ruble is a bootleg product. The French franc has had a precarious existence...
...Melody in F." Police say that the men failed in an attempt to destroy the evidence, and it will be used against them when they appear before the court next Tuesday. It is believed that the men are members of the gang headed by the notorious czar of bootleg swing, Benny (Hot-Fingers) Goodman...
Grace attacked the Student Union for its actions in the Roxbury High School case and quoted a letter from Frederick Ernst, head of the Principals' Association of New York City, describing the Union as a "bootleg organization." He also urged "cooperation" as the solution of the Town-Gown problem in Cambridge