Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still persistent last week was the autastic rumor that Alfonse ("Scarface") Capone rules the Tom Thumb trade. A likely explanation was that Colyumist Walter Winchell, broadcasting gossip, once said something about as follows: "Tom Thumb Golf is the newest racket; first thing we know Al Capone will have grifted into...
...national junior championships (all expenses paid) she earned her keep by bringing home the cup. More, she attracted the favorable attention of one of the moguls of the U. S. L. T. A. Her rise was inevitable and steady. An ageing Helen Wills fell before her nimble racket, and she was champion. She was popular: she had a nice smile, she was attractive, she had pretty legs. Said a bystander at one of her matches: "Most good players haven't nice legs, have they? Betty's [Nuthall] are thick, and Eileen's [Bennett] are sort of funny, and Helen...
Florence soon found that tennis racket had more than one meaning. And she made the most of her many opportunities: "writing" for newspaper syndicates, endorsing cosmetics, giving concerts. In London she would come to dinner for a flat sum. When her father's business failed it did not matter; Florence was now the family moneymaker. But she found the business of being a champion took more than brawn, more than brains; in self defense she had become a cold-eyed, hard-shelled racketeer. When the man she loved but thought she could not afford to marry finally saw what...
...Blacklist . . . conspiracy!" hissed Legshowman George White (Flying High). "Half-baked . . . childish!" snorted Producer Herman Shumlin (The Last Mile). A League executive tried to conciliate Mr. White: "Forget it, old-timer . . . and help us clean up this rotten situation which has made ticket distribution a 'racket.' " Producer White was adamant. He threatened to start a move among producers that would finish the League, namely, to get all tickets back where they belonged-in box offices. To Attorney General Hamilton Ward of New York went Bernard H. Sandier and William Russell Willcox,* retained as counsel by 23 nonLeague brokers...
...Jose, Calif., M. T. Moran. 62, stage acrobat, turned a somersault over the back of his car when it was struck by a Southern Pacific R. R. train, saved himself from certain death. "Guess I've got a good racket at that," said M. T. Moran...