Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Sheriff-eject Farley became tsar of New York City's racket-infested cleaning & dyeing industry. Salary: $50,000 a year...
...month for ably serving her husband, the House Speaker, as secretary. Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette got his training for office as his late great father's secretary. In some Congressional families public service is an honest vocation. In others it is admittedly a racket to swell the family income by means of the clerk-hire allowance...
...time that someone called attention to the "racket" that has been going on in the University for a number of years:--the Maintenance Department's "repair racket...
...sign checks, often raised later, is known in the underworld as "giving him the circus." Circus victims, part of whose money goes to the taxicab driver who steers them to the evil retreat, are usually so ashamed of themselves afterward that they fail to report to the police. This racket, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney told the New York Bond Club two months ago, is one which the police are particularly anxious to stamp out. His speech did not fall on entirely deaf ears. Last week one New Yorker with the courage of his indiscretions, Henry C. Murphy...
...their match. Wright was playing over his head but still there was no question left about the condition of Vines's game. It lacked the crispness that distinguished it last year. Wright, a graceful player, was very steady. Vines played with blinding speed but little accuracy, broke a racket on a smash but barely...