Word: racketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noel Charles Scaffa, most famed of U. S. private detectives, specializes not in catching crooks but in retrieving the things they steal. Last week his specialty landed him, a handcuffed prisoner, in a Federal courtroom in Manhattan and in the thick of Federal racket charges...
...read with interest your article on "Patent No. 2,000,000." . . . I was most interested as I had just received a letter from the Department of Commerce regarding Patent No. 354934, and I believe that I have discovered a minor business racket...
Patent attorneys are unaware of any widespread false number racket. Anyone can sue the manufacturer who falsifies a patent number. Penalty: $100 and costs, half of which goes to the Government. Much simpler, and far more common, is the practice of applying for a patent and marking the product "Patent Pending," even when the maker has neither hope nor intention of getting a patent...
...going to play Puck in the forthcoming Mid-Summer Night's Dream one can imagine, but as a "G Man" he is right in his element. The film appears to be an accurate account, generally speaking, of the development of the Department of Justice since the new anti-racket federal laws have changed its members from gang-fodder into...
...corporation is Chicago's Mills Novelty Co., world's biggest maker of slot machines. Owned and managed by four Brothers Mills, who are not to be confused with the Four Mills Brothers of Radio, the company has no connection with the $150,000,000 slot machine racket except that it makes the machines. So far as the Brothers Mills know, their notorious product is simply used as a "trade stimulator" or for amusement. Indeed, many a slot machine goes into the mansions of fun-loving financiers. Mills insists that there are several slot machines in Buckingham Palace...