Word: racketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sure it's a swell oath. You made it up, didn't you? And you made it pretty plain what the score was going to be in this teaching racket. Don't forget, Curley told you it was just what the State and the people needed...
...sure the little guy from the Lake Shore was hauling liquor; so I began to lay my racket...
Only four Representatives rose to their feet. Thus the House last week adopted a resolution to investigate and determine whether the Townsend Plan to grant $200 a month pensions to all good oldsters was a racket, operated for the benefit of its sponsors...
...also realizes that a clear-cut statement of their views would do each & every member inestimable political damage in home districts. As a matter of political self-preservation, therefore, the House last week started its oblique counterattack on the Townsend Plan, hoping to show it up as a ridiculous racket and thus deflate its importance in the November elections. As the spear point of the counterattack, Representative Bell could afford to take the risk of sponsoring the Townsend inquiry because back of him in Kansas City is Boss Tom Pendergast with his redoubtable political machine. To other Congressmen their lesser...
...obtain British citizenship by being married off to a cheap British crook, who received from $10 to $50 for his trouble. Last week expensively-dressed, 220-lb. Mr. Kassel was found bullet-riddled in a ditch 20 miles outside London. Wide open broke a major European vice racket about which detectives on both sides of the channel seemed to teem with information...