Word: racketeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret precincts beyond the gates. Tank trucks make shuttle runs between the Titusville railroad sidings and the Cape, carefully hauling highly volatile liquid oxygen for rocket fuel. It is a land of piercing shrieks and thunderous roars, and when the shrieks and the roars combine in one nerve-racking racket, housewives, office workers and schoolchildren rush outdoors to watch another missile on the way, and to compare notes on its performance...
When at last Hoad stalked out on the center court to play his countryman, Ashley Cooper, 20, for the title, he left his sulks in the clubhouse. His tennis was awesome. Serves powered by his thick shoulders and muscle-rippled arm had Cooper frantically switching his racket from forehand to backhand. Volleys flicked dust from the base line. Backhand lobs plopped into corners like wet sponges. Up in the stands, stunned tennis fans, many of them longtime Hoad baiters, talked aloud of such oldtime greats as America's Bill Tilden or Jack Kramer, and wondered whether Hoad...
Earl Warren, 66, appointed Chief Justice by President Eisenhower in 1953. Son of a railroad worker, raised in Bakersfield, Calif., took his law degree at the University of California (1912). He became Alameda County (Oakland) district attorney in 1925, quickly made a name as a racket-buster, was elected state attorney general in 1938, but his courtroom experience nevertheless was limited. Republican Warren was elected California's governor three times with labor as well as business support, was a good, if plodding administrator, endeared himself to the faculty of the University of California by standing firm against loyalty oaths...
Dutch & Lucky. On the New Deal tide Jimmy rode high. His pockets crammed with money, he fronted for an army commanded by a young man named Arthur Flegenheimer, better known to his fellow racketeers and murderers as Dutch Schultz. While Schultz and his mob prospered in bootleg whisky and the numbers racket, Hines provided the necessary protection. Uncooperative policemen were shifted to faraway beats, district attorneys obligingly quashed indictments, amiable Hines magistrates freed the small fry. Into Hines's personal treasury came -in addition to the customary kickbacks from city employees and officials-vast wads of money from Schultz...
...Newhouse's staid Oregonian -a comfortable, conservative newspaper that is normally inclined to sit back and rock on Portland's front porch-it was a tough and hazardous story. Judged by his police record, Racket Boss Elkins was, at best, an impeachable source. The villains in Elkins' story were not men to meddle with lightly-a Teamster organizer and ex-convict, as well as Multnomah County District Attorney William Langley and Sheriff (now Mayor) Terry Schrunk, both Teamster protégés. After listening to 70 hours of conversations between the key figures, tape-recorded...