Word: racketeered
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JUNE MOON?The songwriting racket hilariously exposed...
...used him to shield their deviltry. The Gang supposedly centred around Daugherty in the Department of Justice.? Its active manager was Jess Smith, Daugherty's friend and roommate, onetime Ohio dry-goods clerk, whose body was found in his hotel room after he had threatened to "quit the racket...
...allies were confident that Capone would go straight to his brick house at No. 7244 Prairie Ave., the "little home" which he used to give substance to his story of being "out of the booze racket." Three years ago newsmen called upon him there. He opened the door to them, wearing a pink apron, carrying a pan of spaghetti...
...invested there in a nine-hole golf course, a clubhouse "that sleeps 26 people." George ("Bugs") Moran, who lost seven of his north side hirelings in the St. Valentine's Massacre (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929) informed Chief Stege that he was now "out of the booze racket," that he was running a $125,000 dry cleaning plant. Newsmen, familiar with "blind activities" of gunsters, smiled wisely at these claims...
...racket has appeared at Harvard, and almost simultaneous with its arrival, a means of combatting it has been devised. A pair of ingenious go-getting bootleggers recently hit upon a novel means of increasing their effectiveness as salesmen of illicit spirits. They had tried arguments supporting the authenticity of their liquors; they had worn stiff collars, shined their shoes, brushed their hair, and worn pleasant smiles on their unrefined countenances...