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...Racket Racket...
...fire you. They'll hire you back the next day for forty. Or work for Mr. Hearst, he pays the best. Sure he does, until some mug blows in from Chicago who's a friend of the efficiency boys. I tell you, anybody who goes into this racket is crazy...
...deaf, mentally energetic Howard Hughes, nephew of Novelist Rupert Hughes. His late father controlled a patent on a device necessary to every oil-well drill. With nothing to do. young Hughes became interested in aviation arid the cinema. He produced two successful silent pictures, Two Arabian Knights and The Racket. Then he decided to make a great air picture. He spent $2,000,000 on Hell's Angels. Two flyers died in action before the camera. The death scene of one remains in the picture-a big bombing plane falling in flames. The pilot got out with a parachute...
...Chicago Brother Ralph Capone, awaiting sentence for his income tax fraud, was charged by the U. S. with conducting an airplane liquor smuggling racket which had brought in $1,400,000 worth of contraband from Canada...
...think straight because they are affected by the consciousness of their own numbers. . . . The Mob destroys spiritual values by accepting them; it destroys great men by adopting their principles." Because he is a writer, Author Notch's prime examples of mob-rule are taken from the literary racket...