Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lucky Luciano, 57, whose 9½-year sojourn in New York pens crowned his career as a top merchandiser of dope and prostitutes, was set to go back in business selling hypodermic needles and such in Naples, where Italy's cops have him sequestered. Lucky's new racket, however, is apparently legitimate; he will soon open a clinical supply store, purveying such items as stethoscopes and bedpans to Neapolitan doctors and hospitals...
...like a ton of bricks." Kramer claimed that he had definite promises from both Australians to turn pro when they left the U.S. last month. But back home in Australia they came under heavy pressure to change their minds. Lew Hoad, who earns $4,500 as a part-time racket salesman for the Dunlop Sports Co., Ltd., was promised unspecified "opportunities of advancement." Slazengers Proprietary Ltd., the sporting goods firm that employs Ken Rosewall, offered him a new five-year contract. The Carnation Milk Co. promised Rosewall an additional job to bring his earnings up to $5,600 a year...
Wielding a checkbook instead of a racket, John Albert Kramer promotes professional tennis with the same drive and skill that once made him a champion. In recent years Promoter Kramer has used his checkbook to buy the services of many a top amateur star, and has repeatedly riddled amateur ranks and Davis Cup hopes. Last week Jack Kramer signed top U.S. Amateur Tony Trabert, 25, to a pro contract. He was also bidding strongly to get the Australian stars, Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, into the pro ranks...
Commenting on modern adventure writing--he has himself written 25 novels about the sea--he observed, "It's just a racket to make money. As for you masculine writers with their pseudo blood and thunder, it takes more than a pipe to make an author virile...
...there are anemic bums. They've got no meat on their bones. Some way you've got to figure out a way to shanghai some reinforcements. Forget the expense. If we don't manage that, we won't get any decent opponents; that means no spectators either, and our racket is finished. I understand there are a few more bruisers in Wisconsion (sic). You bring them here. The cost plays no part...