Word: racketeered
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Fritchey set out to expose a flourishing racket in cemetery lots. Smooth-tongued promoters had turned pastures into graveyards, sold enough space to bury Cleveland's dead for 200 years to come, grifted $2,000,000 a year in sales, resales, commissions...
Tops in his racket, the Crimson's colorful coach broke into fame with the Athletics in 1940, and was getting secure in the second base position when he entered the Navy at the end of the 1942 season, interrupting his playing career. He obtained his Chief Specialist (A) rate, and was subsequently assigned to the V-12 Unit here, where he is O.O.D...
...spacious office, flanked by two ack-ack guns, a grand piano and a juke box, shrewd "Tacho" Somoza might well wonder if the jig were up. For seven years he had been Central America's most genial, least bloodthirsty dictator. But he had made all Nicaragua his racket, with opéra-bouffe trimmings. He had justified his record with a plaintive: "Godammit, I want to make sure that my family has enough to live on after...
...Medalie. Just 29, Thomas Dewey became Chief Assistant to District Attorney Medalie and the administrative head of the largest prosecuting office in the federal Government, with 60 lawyers under him. Appointed Special Prosecutor, and elected District Attorney for New York County, by 1938 Thomas Dewey had made the name racket-buster synonymous with...
...Racket at Home. Many prisoners agreed that "politics were a dirty racket and all politicians hypocrites. . . . Many prisoners are passionately curious about postwar planning and a copy of the Beveridge Report was a best-seller in the Camp...