Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made it possible for him to play what he prefers to call tisch tennis all year round. In the last four years, he has toured Europe, Africa, the U. S., won 524 trophies, never lost one of his 73 championships, except by default. He holds his rubber-faced racket with the tennis, not the penholder grip popular among his U. S. confreres. His best stroke is the backhand which he uses for nine out of ten returns. With his friend Sandor Glancz, Barna helped win for Hungary the Swaythling trophy, Davis Cup of ping-pongists, for which play will begin...
...students in the next room can't hear their professor and he would please like to know what all the racket...
That such a film should eventually reach the U. S. was a foregone conclusion. Its importer is one Sam Cummins, whose Eureka Productions have released such films as Man of Courage and War Is a Racket. Whether or not he would get it into the country depended last week on what Mrs. Morgenthau, the General Counsel to the Secretary of the Treasury, the General Counsel for the Customs Bureau, and Huntington Cairns, a Baltimore lawyer and critic who is morals arbiter for the Treasury, thought of what they saw at Extase's first private screening. Before she went home...
...unnoticed. In this free country a man ought to have a right to see a filthy show if he wants to. Preventing him from seeing it will not prevent him from being the kind of person that wants to. . . . Censorship, for all its misguided good intentions, is just another racket the people have...
...Page Miss Glory (by Philip Dunning & Joseph Schrank; Schwab & Dunning, producers) is a broad farce about the beauty prize racket. A pair of idlers are about to be tossed out of Manhattan's non-existent Ritz-Plaza Hotel for failure to pay their board bill when one, a composite photographer by trade, hits upon the idea of manufacturing with his lens the most beautiful girl in the U. S. A laxative firm is offering $2,500 for her picture. She is given Greta Garbo's eyes, Constance Bennett's hair, Myrna Loy's lips, Katharine Hepburn's nostrils, Norma Shearer...