Word: racketed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best" Republican Presidential nominee in 1940 would be Racket Buster Tom Dewey, picked by 12.2% of all adult citizens; next, Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg or New York City's New Dealing Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, each liked by 11.5%-choices from a list of eight possibilities among whom 38% of the voters declined to choose; not included in the list were such recent Republican celebrities as Ohio's Senator Taft and Governor Bricker, Massachusetts' Governor Saltonstall, Minnesota's Governor Stassen, Pennsylvania's Governor James. (FORTUNE...
...puny lad, but he was smart enough to get a job as usher at Roxy's Theatre, and do bodybuilding exercises on the side. Result: he became a Grade-A physical specimen, soon headed his own body-building establishment, General Manpower, Inc. But Orestes ran his racket with a difference: he rented out his customers-as strikebreakers, loggers, steelworkers, etc. These "units" of General Manpower not only drew high wages but owned a share in the business. Worked intensively but never long, they were guaranteed intermediate periods of "reconditioning" at the company's California plant, with hard exercise...
Weinberg, one of the key men in the policy racket mob of the late Arthur "Dutch Schultz" Flegenheimer, was found dying at his home on the outskirts of the city. He was rushed to a hospital but died from a bullet wound in his head before the regained consciousness
...debut. The lucky girl was Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt-daughter of her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt by his first wife, now Mrs. John Cutter of Dedham, Mass. She had already had one debut in Boston and observed frankly that coming out is "a racket, but a pleasant...
Since last January, when Mayor La-Guardia turned him loose on New York City's government as Commissioner of Investigation, apple-faced young William B. Herlands, former assistant to racket-busting District Attorney Tom Dewey, has been turning up crockeries great & small. Last week Digger Herlands unearthed something neat in political rackets, an antique...