Word: racketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finest present of his life. It was given him by a jury which for more than nine weeks had been listening to the case he had built up, as New York City's brilliant Special Prosecutor, against seven men accused of running a Manhattan restaurant racket...
...former auto-stealing racket in Brooklyn was explained by Hince, who told of how all the Cadillacs and Packards were catalogued by the chief of operations. Orders giving specific descriptions of the kind of car wanted were made in Sweden and Norway, sent over to Brooklyn, and the chief then supplied...
...suites of offices, to divert his eye from the verities of Broadway. When his son Sidney, breaking in with Mills Music, called up to get Calloway to play a tune he was promoting, Mr. Mills had him turned down cold "to convince him that song-plugging is a tough racket...
Dean Holmes' report outlines a positive policy for preparing sound teachers that is strikingly clear. It is an analysis that might well serve as the guide-post for many universities now engaged in the education "racket...
...chanteuse and now wife of Keats College's brilliant mathematician, Professor Barry. Barry has become a corpse, whereat it is brought to light that many of the Faculty members owe gambling debts to him, while he himself was trying to muscle in on the metropolitan numbers racket. The chief oft the numbers racket is a boy fiend of the professor's wife. Those are the elements; write the story your own way but the plot doesn't really matter. All that does count is that Overman is sufficiently much of an actor to make one of those clever mysteries movies...