Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disgusting spectacle of a lobby so powerful that it can override the veto of even President Roosevelt is a thing calculated to incite some kind of action on the part of every right-thinking American. Why does not TIME, who has launched such an excellent exposure of the armaments racket (which exposure, by the way, I think should be reprinted and broadcast over the country), also bring into broad daylight the men and methods directly responsible for the Legion's highly organized raiding of the Treasury, and so bare another national evil? You would be performing a real service...
...Thomas of the New York Morning Telegraph and twice a divorcee, had cut off all her hair. The New York Dailv Mirror printed her photograph. Said Magraw, who is even balder than his wife: "It is the beginning of a reaction against artificiality. . . . This hairdressing business has become a racket. . . . For color she will wear transformations. ... If she wants to wear red, green or purple hair, it is all one with me for I know she will choose whatever shade will best enhance her perfect features...
...assault. Last April when he was annoyed by the radio of one Theodore Cohen, a neighbor in Washington's Chastleton Hotel, he marched into Neighbor Cohen's room and punched him on the jaw. "I asked him like a gentleman over the phone to stop the racket." explained the Minnesota Congressman. "Then I went up and stopped it myself. But I got a doctor to sew him up." Two months before that Francis Shoemaker had been involved in a newsworthy fracas in Minneapolis. While under the influence of an opiate administered for a tooth extraction, he was taken...
Thus did the snatching of a famed dog call attention to pupnapping. That it had become a new racket was last week apparent from other reports. In Memphis police searched for a man driving an old wagon, who represented himself as a humane society officer, seized dogs, held them for ransom. In Kansas City, Alice Wolfberg missed her chow, Ching. By telephone a man demanded $10 from her, later $20. She agreed to pay but summoned police. They arrested two men who arrived to collect...
...visitors at a discreet distance. Hat in hand, bulky Lord Derby led the way. Behind him came the Duchess of York. A fashion show was in progress. Well knowing Queen Mary's aversion to bare legs on tennis courts, one manikin in flannel shorts and grasping a racket trembled and turned very red. The Duchess of York saved the day. "I think they are very practical," said she to Lord Derby...