Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Narcotics. "It is openly alleged in Boston that Charles ('King') Solomon is head of the dope racket ... is the chief source of supply for all wires, runners, peddlers and addicts in New England . . . has reaped unbelievable profits."
Blackmail. Two Bostonian District Attorneys and a Federal District Attorney's assistant put the "age-old badger game on a big business basis." It cost disporting cinema tycoons $105,000 to hush up one party; $120,000 preserved the reputation of a famed tenor; $380,000 kept a New...
Corruption. When he was Governor of Massachusetts (1925-29), Alvan Tufts Fuller charged that Boston's Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols delayed subway construction to let his friends buy up the right-of-way, then sell it to the city at exorbitant prices. He named specific instances, said: "The people...
A prime G. O. Policy: no government competition against private business. Last week's rumor: private grain commission men in Chicago and Minneapolis were fighting for their economic lives against the Farmers' National Grain Corp. created and largely financed by the Federal Farm Board as a direct cooperative...
2) a close personal friend of President Hoover