Word: racketeered
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...would think of offering the putup man 15% for it. . . . Lying is perhaps considered by thieves to be more unethical than it is by the law-abiding. . . ." A member of Yellow Kid Weil's famed Chicago confidence gang reported: "In all my life I never heard of a racket man padding an expense account...
Briefly, the Dewey record goes like this. He struck from the first at the loan shark racket, and by convicting twenty-one usurers put a million-dollar a week business out of commission. Then, in rapid time, the system of organized vice controlled by 'Lucky' Luciano felt the knife, and after extraditing Luciano from Hot Springs, Arkansas, where that worthy went to hide out, Dewey convicted him for a prison stretch of thirty-five to fifty years. Then the restaurant trade, which had been victimized by a series of fake labor unions and "protective associations" to the tune of millions...
Duke's a serious fellow. Outside, a few of his boys were making a racket about something. He went out and told them to shut up. He came back resentful. He dislikes the jazz critics who write for music trade magazines. In their school of thought, the average musician is too much told what to play...
...Japanese complained in Shanghai last week that U. S. and British firms, such as insurance companies, are making a "racket" out of mortgaging Chinese plants and properties so that these can hoist the Stars & Stripes or the Union Jack. Such flags, at latest reports, seemed to have saved considerable Chinese property from Japanese bombs, but tempers were fraying. Meanwhile U. S. Marines joined forces with British police and soldiers to break up a riot by 1,000 native workers striking in the International Settlement at the Chinese Fou Foong Flour Mill. Since it is within 20 yards of the Sino...
...thousands of prodigious youngsters who since the War have taken U. S. tennis away from Society and made it the remarkable thing it is. When he became an international celebrity at Wimbledon two years ago, Donald Budge's sophistication was such that he cheerily waved his racket at Queen Mary in the royal box. Gottfried von Cramm, who put Budge out in the semi-finals that year, greeted the Queen with the courtliest...