Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local business stories played on the front page. Only a few financial editors have built up a personal following. Best-established in San Francisco is John Stackhouse Piper of the Scripps-Howard News. Born in Caribou Me. 39 years ago, he crusaded last year against the realty reorganization racket, oil royalties, "boiler rooms," bucket shops...
Townsend Plan a Racket...
...artichoke racket is supposed to have collected $1,000,000 annual tribute for the last ten years from New York City artichoke-eaters...
...Racket" No season ends normally without the customary agitation over professionalism. This year's came from Professor George Owen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, naval architect and father of George Owen Jr., Harvard's famed all-round athlete who caused something of a sensation himself twelve years ago by describing football as "drudgery I never enjoyed." To the Cambridge (Mass.) Industrial Association Professor Owen declared that "the language of the coaches far outdistances the most colorful of the Navy speech," that universal subsidizing of football players was an open secret, that "the greatest offenders" were Notre Dame...
...John O'Hara, Professor Owen apologized, "if any statement of mine is untrue." To newshawks he observed: "Keep your eye on that 'if.' " For the next day's papers. Professor Owen waded into the Rose Bowl game, which he characterized as a $1,000,000 "racket...