Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PROMISE ME?Lee Tracy gets into and out of a great deal of trouble during this roistering exhibition of the breach-of-promise racket...
...among the early-morning guests at Club Calais, one of the many nightclubs in Manhattan. A man passed her table, stumbled over her feet. He proved to be Ben ("Brownie") Bronston, whom the New York Daily News described as "a pal of Waxie Gordon in the Jersey booze racket." That newspaper reported the following conversation...
...night students made a public protest against Dean Joseph Aldrich Bursley, denounced him for the raids. But it was revealed that the warrants were issued following the arrest of well-known campus 'leggers,* including a freshman Law Schoolman who was said to be chief of the University beer racket. President Alexander Grant Ruthven heartily approved the police action, ordered all five houses closed for the remainder of the term, thus evicting 184 students. When the fraternities reopen their houses next autumn they will be on "social probation," that is, there will be no parties, no fun-making...
...Maxwell Ross, chairman of the Allied Local School Boards of Brooklyn, learned that his personal cards were being distributed at the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club in Brooklyn. Puzzled, suspecting no connection with school affairs, he hired Max B. Krone, private detective, to investigate. Detective Krone unearthed two slick racketeering rings, piled up evidence that they boasted of political "hook-ups," promised small favors to all who would pay for them. Leader of the first ring was President Harry Izzicson of the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club. Shrewd Harry Izzicson dealt in peddlers' licenses, naturalization papers, newsstand permits, hospital jobs...
...several times during the year past, men have been approached: for the most part, however, the racket has been unsuccessful because of the suspicion aroused. In one day, several parents of Harvard undergraduates were called up on the telephone, apparently by the same worker...