Word: racketeered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ninety per cent of all New York poultry is consumed by Jews, who eat two pounds of kosher fowl per capita per week (see p. 24) and pay an estimated $16,000,000 a year to racketeers thereby. A swarthy man will say a blessing over the broiler when his end finally comes, and pass a sharp knife across his knotted gullet. This man will be a shochet (ritual slaughterer), and he will probably belong to an association ruled by gangsters. Even dressed and plucked, the broiler is not yet free of violence, for if his owner does not string...
...public service prize (gold medal costing $500) was won not by a single exploit but by a medley of campaigns pushed by the World-Telegram last year: an exposé of discreditable phases of veterans' relief by Reporter Talcott Powell; a series on the real estate bond racket by Reporters Joseph Lilly & Fred Woltman; an expose of the lottery schemes of the Eagles and Moose lodges which led to Federal prosecution (TIME. Aug. 29 et seq.) by Reporter Winston Murrill; urging New York City voters to write-in the name of upstanding Joseph V. McKee for Mayor, after Tammany...
...fight the Fatherland. During their absence the Volsteadian debacle closes his lawful business and establishes the lucrative blind pig and speakeasy. Conflict between his remaining son, who now manufactures near beer, "the nearest we will ever got to beer," and Nails, his erst-while truck driver, and present racket king, brings the action to a head with shootings, typewriters, pineapples, and fights in the approved style, with, of course, the appropriate happy ending...
Being myself in the business of helping some of my fellow citizens learn how to be authors, I have read with great interest your quotation from the Author & Journalist in your April 17 issue, which you entitled "Drivel Racket." I know the author of the article you quoted and can vouch for his complete sincerity in his exposure of the gyp games in the literary instruction field...
Last fortnight The Author & Journalist followed its exposé of the heartless "copyright racket" with the report of its investigation into the similar but more lucrative "vanity publishing" field...