Word: racketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caretakers, said that all cases of the fraud were reported by students, for the most part in the Law School, who were living not in the Yard or in Houses but in boarding houses or apartments. Until "Geer" is known to be operating within University precincts, trespassing, the racket is exclusively a Cambridge police problem. Colonel Apted provided the town inspectors with a photograph of the swindler to help them in tracing...
When Federal agents arrested young Lawyer Buckner as he debarked from the Queen Mary last week, they said his racket had been bonds of the Philippine Railway Co. When the bonds were down around $10, he got himself appointed chairman of the bondholders' protective committee. To boost the bonds, the Federals said, he flew to Manila and from there flashed word that he was getting the Philippine Commonwealth to take the issue over at $50 or maybe $65. The bonds shot up to $31 last January and February, crashed when President Manuel Quezon categorically denied his Government was buying...
...York and other financial centres last week the Securities & Exchange Commission began cleaning up an international "front money" racket. As uncovered by SEC on the West Coast, the racket works as follows: a broker with a luxurious office advertises he can obtain capital up to $100,000 for persons with ideas or assets to capitalize. The sucker pays $250 to $2,500 to file a prospectus, smaller fees to organize a corporation and qualify its securities in New York. One Paul E. Reinhardt, front man for front money in Los Angeles, told SEC that for none of his 150 clients...
Marriage Laws. Oregon voted to require medical examinations for marriage license applicants. Maryland prescribed a 48-hour interval between licensing and ceremony to scotch its fly-by-night marriage racket at Elkton...
...Roman myths as related by Ovid, he had to rely on his imagination. He painted a troop of satyrs and demi-mortals congregating in a meadow around a hollow tree, a young bibulous Bacchus, a grinning Silenus straddling a donkey. Most of the company were engaged in making a racket on tin pans, to coax a swarm of bees into a cluster. Title: The Discovery of Honey...