Word: racketeered
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...corporation is Chicago's Mills Novelty Co., world's biggest maker of slot machines. Owned and managed by four Brothers Mills, who are not to be confused with the Four Mills Brothers of Radio, the company has no connection with the $150,000,000 slot machine racket except that it makes the machines. So far as the Brothers Mills know, their notorious product is simply used as a "trade stimulator" or for amusement. Indeed, many a slot machine goes into the mansions of fun-loving financiers. Mills insists that there are several slot machines in Buckingham Palace...
...tennis racket with case, marked T. D. NEILL, Boston, Mass...
...Angeles, May 2--Evidence that the "dime letter" racket was organized here weeks before Denver's "prosperity chain letter" fad started was placed in the hands of Federal authorities tonight...
...round-up of persons believed to have started the original "dime letter racket" as a modest swindle that ran away and quickly mushroomed into a craze, has been ordered by Federal authorities...
Before Arthur ("Dutch Shultz") Flegenheimer went on trial last week at Syracuse, N. Y. for evading $92,103.34 in income taxes on $481,637.35 made in 1929-31 from "various unlawful business enterprises and rackets," he volunteered to reporters a partial biography. He is 33, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left...