Word: racketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached his hand into St. Louis, Newark, Atlantic City. He spread his power over the newborn labor rackets. He built a $65,000 walled fortress in Florida on Palm Island, near Miami. He turned up at theatres, thick lips puckered, flanked by watchful bodyguards. Honest men patted him gingerly on the back, said of him, "Great fellow, Al." He sat with society in Miami, he had a ringside seat at the big fights. His levy fell on millions-every man paid through his liquor, entertainment, food, clothing. The take of his racket organization was estimated...
...Capone was arrested in 1929 in Philadelphia and went to prison for a year on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. After his release a Chicago newspaper man, Jake Lingle, was shot. He was suspected of being "in the racket," said to have been Capone's friend. Whatever he was, his murder was one too many. There was a sudden bellow of public indignation. In Chicago Colonel Robert Isham Randolph and his Secret Six Committee, Investigator Pat Roche, many another, took up the crusade for decency. Capone was near...
...sworn in, the three-judge hearing on the rebel jurors' charges was dismissed, on Hertz' motion. The argument: if Byrne is out, why investigate him? After months of work, the jurors were getting close to what may be Louisiana's highest-smelling corruption, the alleged "tax racket," whereby citizens and corporations agreed with tax officials on luscious tax reductions, with the savings split both ways. To terminate the hearing on Byrne's qualifications, thus also terminating the hearing of evidence on the tax racket, which was nearing the danger point of naming higher-ups, Byrne...
Governor Long then began his New Orleans campaign for the Governorship with the reassuring statement that his "hands were clean." But at this point the Federal Government showed interest in why the tax-racket hearings had been stopped. One of Attorney General Frank Murphy's "smart boys," Harold Rosenwald, announced that the Federal Grand Jury would immediately start hearings. Earl Kemp Long kept mum. But he and all Louisiana were aware that only Earl's boss, Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, still remained untouched by the tidal wave that in four months has washed up nearly...
...North Carolina now has the power to pardon Fred Beal. Lolling in the witness chair, Witness Beal declared that Party leaders deliberately made the trial a vehicle for Communist propaganda, inflaming the southern jurors and dooming the defendants. Afterward, said he, Communists in Manhattan worked their false passport racket, shipped him and his fellows off "to show the Russians by our coming that there was a bad situation in America...