Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...District Attorney, which will substitute for Pepsodent's Bob Hope, program on NBC-Red this summer, is typical of the vulgate radio shows by Phillips H. Lord (Seth Parker, Gang Busters, We, the People). Racket situations are dramatized and a Dewey-style prosecuting attorney goes to work on the fictionized culprits...
...question to the good people who are making these requests: How can an alderman satisfy them and yet remain honest? . . . With an alderman's salary what it is [$5,000], if he does make these contributions on any appreciable scale, he is almost literally forced into the 'racket...
...House and Republican elective officials at Lansing thrust Michigan's sartorially perfect Senator into the Presidential race from which he has ostentatiously and repeatedly withheld himself. Senator Vandenberg, flush with success after beating down the Florida Ship Canal Bill, said he was "grateful." Manhattan's Michigan-born racket buster, Tom Dewey, consistent favorite in the Republican race, who agreed to the Vandenberg endorsement, will now look to the New York delegation for home-State support...
Editor Ewald's crusade was good for his paper. The Press bought out the morning Register and Henry Ewald became editor of both papers. Last fall he went after the lottery racket, spread the front pages of the Register and the Press with pictures of lottery tickets that Mobile's police said they could not find...
...CRIMSON'S cause is eminently just. The tutoring schools have developed into a great business racket which is a menace to sound education. They have preyed upon students by offering them a third-rate education for so long that the latter have become deluded into regarding them as an integral part of the Harvard system. To get any real result from a college education, both in mental training and in the assimilation of material, a man must do his own thinking...