Word: racketeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast between the extremes of wealth and poverty is sharper now" than when the Conservatives took power eight years ago. To remedy this state of affairs -the existence of which foreign observers frankly doubt-the Labor manifesto demanded an end to "the businessman's expense-account racket," called for a tax on capital gains and measures to block loopholes in the inheritance-tax laws...
...Pianist-Private Eye Johnny Staccato (John Cassavetes) has hardly slugged his way through his first two capers, but his style is already familiar: early Peter Gunn, with plenty of room for more polish. Still, Johnny is already smooth enough to take on a black-market baby racket...
Jimmy Hoffa & Co. (the racket-infested, predatory hierarchy of the Teamsters), the arrogance of Labor Boss James Carey in threatening political retaliation to House members who voted for the Landrum-Griffin bill, and the steelworkers' ability to push wages up at twice the rate of productivity gains are the most explicit reasons why there is so-called "antiunion" sentiment (in reality, "antilabor boss" sentiment) in the nation-in and out of Congress...
Labor itself, by its incredibly crude tactics, seemed determined to achieve precisely the tough reform bill it was fighting. Among the House conferees was New Jersey Democrat Frank Thompson, regarded as a close friend to labor-although not to Jimmy Hoffa's racket-riddled International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In working for a middle-road labor bill, Thompson had won the enmity of Hoffa's top lobbyist, blundering, blunderbussing Sidney Zagri. Soon after Zagri denounced Thompson as an enemy to labor, Thompson began getting threatening telephone calls, finally reported them to the FBI. Driving to the Capitol one morning...
...five, such a movement is the Church of England's best hope for rekindling religious spirit (only one-tenth of England's 27 million Anglicans attended services last Easter Sunday, the day of top turnout). British workers, explains Strong, see the church as "a financial racket. Churches are empty now, but the Church still has income from investments. If empty churches meant hard times for vicars, then they would soon do something about...