Word: racketeer
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...second time in a year, gangsters dynamited the $100.000 Brentwood, Calif, villa of Hollywood Mobster Mickey Cohen, 38. Mickey and his wife, LaVonne, who were asleep in another room at the time, were unhurt. But the neighbors were getting a little peevish over all the racket made by Mickey's playmates...
...Racket & Revolver. Reverdy was a normally mischievous boy who learned to swear and smoke and pilfer, but his mother did her best to counteract the effects of poverty and slums by encouraging her son in the religious life. When he finally decided to become a minister after graduating from Wilberforce University, she was delighted. But his farmer father exclaimed: "You're a fool to spend your life going through the world making your living off the damned niggers...
...With an old friend's promise of a vague job, Joseph Gotten, an American hack writer of Western novelettes, arrives in Vienna just in time to rush to his benefactor's funeral. He learns that 1) his friend was mixed up in some sort of racket; and 2) his death may not have been as accidental as the dead man's Vienna associates-a seedy baron, a teak-faced doctor and a Rumanian fashionplate-so glibly assure...
While this is going on, Rosie is hijacked by a gang of deserters. The second half of the book is spent largely in playing a rough game of ring-around-Rosie with the hijackers. In the end, Rosie is recovered, Snowy & Co. help bust the deserters' racket, and Snowy and the Italian princess nave made a night of it without class distinctions...
...paranoids. He says that such workers join unions to vent their unresolved, aggressive impulses upon management. He believes that union leaders fall into three main groups: 1) sincere idealists; 2) emotionally immature neurotics who tend to be exhibitionists; 3) psychopathic personalities who regard labor as a racket...