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This is what the two Hearstlings, showing uncommon restraint, call "hot journalism." It is not even that. The boys' candor comes at the sacrifice of coverage; they leave big areas of corruption severely untouched. One piquant example is their soft-pedaling of the numbers racket. The omission may stem from the fact that the newspaper Lait now edits (The New York Daily Mirror) prints daily figures from which enterprising readers work out numbers results...
...Numbers Racket. In Bruges, Belgium, the three Leenknect brothers were jailed for hatching a lottery with the drawing slated for April...
Governor Arnall cleaned up the state educational system, ended the pardon racket, virtually wiped out the state debt. He launched a vigorous and successful "pro-Georgia" campaign to lift the state's economic level...
Before his day in office the racket had been haphazard in the extreme-non-uniformed fire department inspectors had simply demanded whatever they thought a contractor would pay. But Moran put things on a business basis. He put fire inspectors in uniform, doubled their take-home pay by matching their salaries with graft money...
...Crimson Inaugurates Campaign to Eliminate Tutoring Schools as an Organized Vice Racket Violating University Rulings and Ethics...