Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guess the snatch racket is not such a paying proposition as we thought...
...this time-tested sequence, he proudly recalls one trick which never failed to convulse his audience. Slowly pulling off his pants he would fling them into the chandelier. ''After that," he says, ''I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." The Racket (1927) and Gentlemen of the Pres- (1928) were Broadway successes which paved his way to the role of a bemused cinema director in Once In a Lifetime. The part of Officer Meshbesher in Face the Music followed. As amusing off stage as on, Hugh O'Connell has a little...
...MASTER'S VOICE-James Rorty- Day ($3). Advertising, defined variously as an art, a racket, a Midas, a parasite, is one of the twelve greatest U. S. industries. In 1929 it did a two-billion dollar business. Like most other U. S. industries, advertising since 1929 has had many a hard knock. Your Money's Worth (TIME, July 25, 1927), by Stuart Chase & F. J. Schlink, and 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (1933), by F. J. Schlink and Arthur Kallet, lifted the lid on some cynical advertising secrets. Last week, amid cries of "Foul!" from its partisans, advertising...
...World War . . . has shown that armaments are an incentive, one of the main causes of war. . . . No reason for war remains except sudden profits for the 50 men who run the munitions racket. . . . The first real step . . . is the destruction of the world-wide munitions racket. It will cost millions of dollars. It will save millions of lives...
...defense against an NRA newspaper code. It scolded its brothers for resisting Child Labor laws against newsboys and openly stated that it hoped to eliminate all newsboys from its own circulation system. It regularly whangs New York's archaic divorce laws and the breach of promise racket. It promised not to heckle President Roosevelt for one year following his inauguration, has since March 4, 1934 continued to support him by choice...