Word: racketeered
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...Noted that Sir John Simon, "the Empire's Highest Feed Lawyer" did not forget that he is now Home Secretary, having been demoted from Foreign Secretary. Sir John made his debut in Home Affairs on the issue of chain letters, a racket now spreading from the U. S. throughout Great Britain. Famed for his ability to speak learnedly on any subject without committing himself to either side, the Home Secretary toyed with the question whether in Great Britain chain letters are legal or illegal. "I may observe," said the Great Lawyer, "that certain types of snowball schemes, to which chain...
Noel Charles Scaffa, most famed of U. S. private detectives, specializes not in catching crooks but in retrieving the things they steal. Last week his specialty landed him, a handcuffed prisoner, in a Federal courtroom in Manhattan and in the thick of Federal racket charges...
...read with interest your article on "Patent No. 2,000,000." . . . I was most interested as I had just received a letter from the Department of Commerce regarding Patent No. 354934, and I believe that I have discovered a minor business racket...
Patent attorneys are unaware of any widespread false number racket. Anyone can sue the manufacturer who falsifies a patent number. Penalty: $100 and costs, half of which goes to the Government. Much simpler, and far more common, is the practice of applying for a patent and marking the product "Patent Pending," even when the maker has neither hope nor intention of getting a patent...
...going to play Puck in the forthcoming Mid-Summer Night's Dream one can imagine, but as a "G Man" he is right in his element. The film appears to be an accurate account, generally speaking, of the development of the Department of Justice since the new anti-racket federal laws have changed its members from gang-fodder into...