Word: racketeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, March 28--The Senate's racket probers, getting tips on alleged misconduct from all over the country, announced today a broader-than-ever search for cases of labor-management corruption...
WASHINGTON, March 22--Senate racket probers today listed $709,420.14 of Teamsters Union funds as lost, misappropriated, unaccounted for, or questionably used--in operations on the West Coast alone...
WASHINGTON, March 14--The government moved swiftly today--with a grand jury investigation--in the case of Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters Union bigshot accused of a plot to plant a spy in the midst of the Senate's racket probers...
...riding he was taking from an Aussie crowd in Adelaide, Pro Tennis Champion Pancho Gonzalez not only lost a match to Ken Rosewall (4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 9-7, 6-1), but lost his head as well. In the fourth set Pancho blew up, heaved his racket at the umpire, broke a microphone and sent spectators skittering as the racket bounced into the stands. Still unstrung a few days later, Pancho was beaten again by Rosewall for third money in a pro tournament. Tournament winner: Pancho Segura over Frank Sedgman...
...longer would they have to throttle back for their pass above the Will Rogers pylon. They could let down as fast as they wanted to - provided that they stayed above 5,000 ft. so that the shattering racket of a "sonic boom" would not un nerve spectators or jostle instruments...