Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tired herself out with a 108-game match a few days before, also dropped off the U. S. team, Miss Palfrey had another match on her hands an hour later. She and Helen Jacobs beat Dorothy Round and Mary Heeley, who was wearing a glove on her racket hand, 6-4. 6-2. With husky Helen Jacobs' 6-4, 6-2 singles victory over demure Miss Round-whose tennis manners suggest where she learned the game, on the lawn of her father's vicarage at Dudley, England-it gave the U. S. a lead of 3 matches...
True to his campaign pledge State's Attorney Courtney went after the Chicago racket system-unscrupulous businessmen working hand-in-glove with unscrupulous labor leaders, aided by thugs to do the bombing, window smashing and shooting and backed by crooked politicians and shyster lawyers. He induced kinetic Edwin J. Raber to serve as his special prosecutor. Able Lawyer Raber dug into old newspaper files, searched police records, tapped wires, persuaded timid witnesses to tell the grand jury all they knew. First fruits of these efforts were last week's indictments against cleaners & dyers, laundry owners, their union cohorts...
...college professor in Reading, Pa., a fugitive from Federal justice, an alderman vacationing in Europe and 19 other assorted Chicagoans all had common cause for worry last week. It was a big warm blanket indictment by a Cook County grand jury charging them one & all with being trade racketeers. Behind the indictment lay Chicago's years of industrial bombings, murders and terrorism, and twelve weeks of secret investigation by the grand jury before whom appeared 588 frightened witnesses. A strapping, six-foot Irishman elected State's Attorney on an anti-racket platform and a hard-hitting little criminal...
Chicago's first major trade racket mur der occurred on the warm afternoon of Aug. 3, 1926 when Morris Markowitz, one time Russian pushcart peddler who be came an independent teamster but refused to join a ruthless teamsters' union, was shot down at 37th & Princeton Streets. Since then no less than 274 business rackets have been uncovered, varying from bootblacks, fish dealers and candy jobbers to garagemen, glaziers and electricians...
...Western stage coach lines obsolescent, Wells Fargo got into the railway express business. With the passing of the horse, Studebaker Carriage works survived by manufacturing automobiles. The return of beer has similarly forced the nation's underworld into evolution. As was amply evidenced last week, the defunct beer racket is swiftly being superseded as a source of criminal revenue by the uglier, more desperate crime of kidnapping. Unlike a legitimate industry, a gang which has been running beer need not modify its plant or personnel to go in for snatching. A number of people are required as abductors, guards...