Word: racketeered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that irks a dyed-in-the-wool fan. Gene Tunney found this out, and it is this jealousy, perhaps, of men who have acquired the stamp of education conferred by a college degree that has brought many a heavyweight champion of the Intercollegiate Boxing Association to grief in the "racket" of professional boxing...
...sporting traditions of a hundred years ago by buying, for his personal amusement, an interest in a professional fighter. The fighter was René De Vos, Belgian contender for the middleweight championship; sports - writers laughed merrily for days at the notion ot a respectable person engaging in the fight racket and of a decently dressed and wellspoken person undertaking to pat and rub a bloody pugilist between the rounds of a fight...
...Smith, Dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan in 1926, was fined $1,000 last week and sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary for 15 months. He & friends had an automobile stealing racket in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Louisville...
...whose income from tips was $15,000 a year, whose valet was Thomas Crossley Earnshaw, who had a wife and a cottage in Southampton, England, and who had been a Cunard employe for 20 years. On the Berengaria, he had managed a glee club as well as his smuggling racket; when accused of the latter he broke down and wept piteously, asserting that he had received $100 for each packet and had carried only twelve in the last two years. Overjoyed, the customs men hauled him off to prison...
JARNEGAN-Jim Tully expends sound and fury on the silent drama racket-with a cast which includes Richard Bennett and his daughter Joan (TIME...