Word: racketeered
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...salvation of the new-fangled fishermen of Boston and the old-fashioned fishermen of Gloucester through the retention of the anti-Canadian tariff; the contemplation by the French authorities of abandoning the penal camp in French Guiana (Devil's Island being the famous part) because of the new racket of facilitating escapes; and the psychological and social reasons for the recent militaristic coup in Japan...
Sure it's a swell oath. You made it up, didn't you? And you made it pretty plain what the score was going to be in this teaching racket. Don't forget, Curley told you it was just what the State and the people needed...
...sure the little guy from the Lake Shore was hauling liquor; so I began to lay my racket...
Only four Representatives rose to their feet. Thus the House last week adopted a resolution to investigate and determine whether the Townsend Plan to grant $200 a month pensions to all good oldsters was a racket, operated for the benefit of its sponsors...
...also realizes that a clear-cut statement of their views would do each & every member inestimable political damage in home districts. As a matter of political self-preservation, therefore, the House last week started its oblique counterattack on the Townsend Plan, hoping to show it up as a ridiculous racket and thus deflate its importance in the November elections. As the spear point of the counterattack, Representative Bell could afford to take the risk of sponsoring the Townsend inquiry because back of him in Kansas City is Boss Tom Pendergast with his redoubtable political machine. To other Congressmen their lesser...