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"Racket" seems to have come originally from the vaudeville world, where it connoted the form of entertainment in which a performer specialized. "His racket is mammy songs." "She's got a good racket -clog-dancing and trained poodles." From this it entered general circulation to connote any method, especially...
Simultaneously in two courts, New York's most colorful and wealthiest alleged racketeer-long, loose-jointed, big-mouthed Larry Fay, indicted a year ago for collecting "dues" from milk dealers (TIME, Oct. 29, 1929)-came into renewed prominence. He was not at either session in person. The Appellate Division...
Money. With $1 dues from each member, the Crusaders possess at least $100,-000 with which to campaign for Wet Congressional candidates this autumn.*/Part of the crusade will be soliciting funds From wealthy Wets throughout the land.
Throughout the U. S. the Hip Sings and On Leongs shot and hatcheted each other in 1917, again in 1924. During the past few months similar Chinatown killings have happened sporadically in New York, Newark, N. J., Chicago. U. S. newsreaders who thought "Tong wars" carry-overs from the days...
Last month in Atlanta, Ga., birthplace of the (second) Ku Klux Klan and Order of the Supreme Kingdom, there came into being an "American Facist [sic] Association and Order of Black Shirts." Its organizers were Holt J. Gewinner and Joseph Wood, onetime Klan candidate for governor. In petitioning the Fulton...