Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech delivered before the Cambridge Industrial Association yesterday, Professor George Owen, of M.I.T., accused Harvard along with Notre Dame and Ohio State, of conducting football as a "major racket...
...time the racket was taking $6,000 per month out of Iowa alone. There were said to have been 2,000 victims in Quincy, Ill. Missouri, according to one faction of this huge gullery, was the home of Sir Francis' "rightful heir." Delay in the inheritance's division was explained by the promoters in many ways. One story was that a British "ecclesiastical court"-sometimes a "secret court"-was holding things up, waiting for the King to put the "golden seal" on the right papers. Two decades ago, Woodrow Wilson was reported to have been driven insane...
...business, drew an income of $2,500 a week and became known in London's night clubs as "The Baron." In 1933 England shipped Baron Hartzell back to the U. S. and fortnight ago he took another trip, at Government expense, from Leavenworth to Chicago, headquarters of the racket for the past two years, to face a second fraud trial. In Chicago he and Otto G. Yant, bank cashier from Mallard, Iowa, who took over the enterprise after Hartzell's imprisonment, were chief defendants of the 41. Yant had been picked up by a detective from Chicago...
...faith of Drake Estate "heirs" knows no bounds. The Chicago mass trial had not got well under way before the Chamber of Commerce of Madison informed Postal Inspector Robert E. Lewis in Chicago that the racket was still going great guns in Wisconsin, was apparently unquenchable...
Many publishers, although they realize that this unpaid advertising is nothing less than a racket which cheapens the value of their paid advertising columns, have been afraid to interfere lest potent space-buyers be offended...