Word: racketeered
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...Blacklist . . . conspiracy!" hissed Legshowman George White (Flying High). "Half-baked . . . childish!" snorted Producer Herman Shumlin (The Last Mile). A League executive tried to conciliate Mr. White: "Forget it, old-timer . . . and help us clean up this rotten situation which has made ticket distribution a 'racket.' " Producer White was adamant. He threatened to start a move among producers that would finish the League, namely, to get all tickets back where they belonged-in box offices. To Attorney General Hamilton Ward of New York went Bernard H. Sandier and William Russell Willcox,* retained as counsel by 23 nonLeague brokers...
Meanwhile in Los Angeles was occurring the last act of a newspaper racket story which made the petty taxing of Chicago brothel keepers pale into insignificance. Morris Lavine, ace reporter of the Los Angeles Examiner, was convicted of attempting to extort $75,000 in the course of a second expose of the Julian Petroleum Corp. scandal...
...Lingle disclosures confirmed, rather than aroused, public suspicion that newsmen are subject to temptation into "rackets," mild or strong. With few exceptions, newspaper publishers look with complaisance upon the favors openly bestowed upon sports writers by promoters of this prizefight or that ball game. Many a publisher shuts his eyes to the inducements offered financial reporters. In rarer instances, such as that of Jake Lingle, when the reporter has intrenched himself solidly among racketeers, the reporting job becomes secondary to the extrajournalistic activities, the racket all-absorbing...
...racket, says he, is essentially an economic phenomenon: "The racket is but another of the devices the American nation has invented to combat the antimonopoly laws. It should not be considered from any other angle. . . . Its real nature is economic and that truth shall be demonstrated with increasingly frequent force...
Daily the suave Mexicans who work the "Morelos racket" in the U. S. have tried to soothe irate clients, threatening clients, clients who pushed into their offices and had hysterics. Reason: The Supreme Court of Mexico recently declared null and void the Puente Code or Divorce Law of Morelos which was promulgated in 1927 by Provisional Governor Ambrosia Puente without being approved by the State Legislature...