Word: racketeered
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...order affected other silk consumers as well. There would be no more silk for football pants, fringes, lamp shades, fish lines and flies, tennis-racket strings, waterproof tobacco pouches, typewriter ribbons, dental floss, surgical stitchings, violin strings, neckties, hats, lingerie, sheets, pajamas, or Mohammedan prayer rugs...
...turned an unbecoming yellow at: "Guilty!" and "Guilty!" He had been convicted of cheating the Government out of taxes on $124,800 in '36 and '37. He had escaped conviction on a charge of doing the same thing in '35. Useful witnesses: operators of a policy racket who testified they had paid him $1,200 a week for police protection...
...natural, of course, that deadpanned John Reynolds (Mr. Wayne), a Yankee Attorney hired by the anti-lottery league to smash the racket, should fall in love with coquettish Julie (Ona Munson), Rebel daughter of goateed General Mirbeau (Henry Stephenson), owner of the lottery. When sudden death overtakes the General and promotes his daughter to head of the lottery, Buster Reynolds is confronted with the painful problem of destroying his light-o-love's source of income without losing her affection...
...Suipacha cinema in Buenos Aires showed a rowdy Universal picture Argentine Nights, starring the muggish Ritz Brothers and hollering Andrews Sisters, which was made in Hollywood last year with one eye on Latin-American trade. The Argentine audience sneered, whistled, booed. On the second night there was so much racket that a police riot squad stopped the show in the middle. Next day the municipal authorities got the theater to withdraw the picture...
...large following in Cleveland. It did not take him long to discover that I Am was founded in 1930 by a Mr. and Mrs. Ballard in Los Angeles, and that the Ballards had previously fled from Chicago under indictment on a charge of conducting a phony gold mine racket. After attending their meetings for a few months, Miller wrote a series of satirical articles in the "Press." The response that this received from the sect was immediate and drastic. I Am declared that Bill Miller was dissolved, that he no longer existed. Miller is rather vague about the whole thing...