Word: racketeered
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...police department was only an embittered woman's imagination-until he was convicted of obstructing justice. Pompous, handshaking Mayor Richard W. Reading professed that all was civic virtue-until he was found guilty of graft. And one of the first men Judge Ferguson indicted in the handbook racket was a policeman assigned to "protect...
...result of the riot, said Dr. Heaton, a law was passed the following year prohibiting "the odious practice of digging up . . . dead bodies" for dissection. In its stead there sprang up a bootleg body-snatching racket run by ancient gangsters who did not hesitate to make their own corpses when none were available. It was not until 1854 that a New York law was passed granting unclaimed bodies in public morgues to medical schools. Body snatching in some other parts of the U.S. persisted until the 20th Century, by which time laws similar to New York State's were...
...less devious method, of course, would be to repeal the 1934 Silver Purchase Act and let silver's price find its commercial level-perhaps as low as 15? an ounce. Mining State Senators last week were preparing a last-ditch defense of their 71? racket. As though to prove they had lost none of their nerve, they even demanded priorities on mining equipment to meet the new war-industry demand for silver-at twice the already artificial market price. Hard-hitting American Metal Market (trade organ) found a word for it in O. Henry: "The legitimate ethics of pure...
This Rube-Goldbergian contraption is a product of the National Defense Research Committee, which includes the best scientific brains in the country. Powered by a 95-h.p. engine, the siren shoots a blast of air through spinning blades, creating sufficient racket to alarm a good-sized town. Tried in Manhattan, it whined over the downtown district, was reflected back over Brooklyn from Manhattan's tall buildings...
...Bormann was arrested for taking part in Hitler's attempted Munich Putsch, got a year in jail. Later he proved himself a nimble manipulator of Party funds, was treasurer of Hitler's 1932 Hilf-skasse racket, whereby money supposedly collected for injured Storm Troopers was turned over to Nazi leaders. Bormann enjoyed Party finance; in 1936 he bought a Mercedes-Benz deluxe for 38,000 marks. He rose to be Hess's administrative right hand, also got close to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler...