Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raid on the capital. Under orders from White Generalissimo Francisco Franco no effort was made to drop heavy bombs. White aviators contented themselves with cutting didos in the air, ripping off belts of machine gun bullets at the sidewalks of Madrid. When the planes had gone and the racket ceased the streets were dotted white with leaflets calling on Madrid to surrender before the real hell of heavy bombing was loosed upon...
That college footballers receive recompense, financial or otherwise, is a fact which, ever since it dawned on them a decade or so ago, has excited sportswriters almost as much as it has bored the rest of the U. S. public. That the racket of proving that college football as a racket is interminable was suggested again last week by an article by solemn Sportswriter John R. Tunis in the American Mercury. Last summer, in a book called Was College Worth While? Harvardman Tunis saluted his alma mater's tercentenary by trying to show that most of his 1911 classmates...
...captain-elect of the Cowlesmen and top-seeded in this affair. Casey Wynn '40 disposed of Fuld in three sets in the third round, in the fourth he himself met a 6-0, 6-1 defeat at the hands of Howard P. Kahn 1L. The latter, of Michigan racket fame, was in turn vanquished by the invincible Burt...
...morning last week on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks just outside Grand Rapids, Mich, two special trains passed each other in opposite directions. At the end of the southbound train was the private car, David Livingstone. At the end of the northbound train was another private car, Pioneer. As the racket of passing abruptly ceased, someone on the back platform of David Livingstone raised his arm, threw something. A handful of small objects rattled on the rear platform of Pioneer. A Secret Service man snatched at one, scrutinized it suspiciously. It was a Landon campaign button...
Once a dignified and honest sport, professional wrestling currently amounts to something between a side show and a racket. Main object of wrestling promoters is to discover human monstrosities. Last week Boston wrestling enthusiasts were treated to a glimpse of the latest addition to the wrestling group. He was Martin ("Leviathan") Levy...