Word: racketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tennis racket with case, marked T. D. NEILL, Boston, Mass...
...Angeles, May 2--Evidence that the "dime letter" racket was organized here weeks before Denver's "prosperity chain letter" fad started was placed in the hands of Federal authorities tonight...
...round-up of persons believed to have started the original "dime letter racket" as a modest swindle that ran away and quickly mushroomed into a craze, has been ordered by Federal authorities...
Before Arthur ("Dutch Shultz") Flegenheimer went on trial last week at Syracuse, N. Y. for evading $92,103.34 in income taxes on $481,637.35 made in 1929-31 from "various unlawful business enterprises and rackets," he volunteered to reporters a partial biography. He is 33, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left...
...Since when is [Policy Racketeer] Dutch Schultz, quondam resident of these parts, a Jew? If you have names of persons who are conducting a policy racket. I know of several agencies to whom such information would be extremely helpful...