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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...racket is a trade or vocation which is loud, bold and often illegal. For example, there is the bootlegging racket, the murder-for-money racket, the dry cleaning racket (in which Gangster "Scarface Al" Capone of Chicago was hired to protect a group of dry cleaners). A racketeer is one who practices a racket...
Governor Wallace Rider Farrington welcomed many a bigwig from Great Britain and the U.S. to his now contented islands, where the natives ride the waves with surf boards and where the weather is so good that nobody needs to write about it. Japanese make up the largest population group, but business is chiefly in the hands of people from...
William Mitchell, onetime stormy petrel of U. S. aviation. Reason: "President Coolidge has been handling the government...for a small group interested primarily in their own well-being...
Claudia Particella, whose father was the Cardinal's counsellor, had retired to Castle Toblino, guarded and defended by a group of ruffians in whom the Cardinal placed the utmost confidence. . . . "Beneath her silken robe was visible the provocative outline of her body. . . . Her half-closed eyes understood the sorcery of poisonous passion...
...between the lawyers' neglect of criminal practice and the insurgence of Crime itself. Retiring as president of the American Bar Association at last week's meeting in Seattle, was Silas Hardy Strawn, eminent resident of "the crime capital of the U. S.," Chicago. Last winter, when a group of Chicagoans, who were really worried about Chicago's condition, asked Mr. Strawn to preside over a discussion meeting, he irritated many of them by pooh-poohing blandly: "In 36 years in Chicago, 7 have never been held up, robbed or racketeered." Last week Mr. Strawn had changed...