Word: rackets
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...Tientsin shopkeepers, called to public confession, were coaxed to give information which led to the unearthing of 6,000 other bribery and corruption cases. Last week, with thousands of Chinese rushing to get in first with their confessions, the Communists had turned China's ancient "squeeze" racket into a neat squeeze play. Complained Austerity Inspection Chairman Po: "One bureau which employs 566 people has denounced only...
Local police have gone into the numbers racket: holders of lucky license numbers will have the privilege of bailing their cars out at five dollars apiece if police find them illegally parked...
There seemed to be no constructive answers. Diplomatic and economic sanctions, vigorously applied, might still force Russia's outlaws to forswear their barefaced ransom racket, but the immediate problem was to liberate the men ignominiously held by Hungary. And so the U.S. paid, got its people back, and wondered what to do next...
...Fascist, Communist-guided, anti-Jewish and even anti-Negro since she charged that the Stork Club had refused to serve her food (TIME, Nov. 12). Cried Sullivan: "I despise Walter Winchell for what he has done to Josephine Baker. Long before [Senator] McCarthy came into the character-assassination racket, Winchell was one of [its] originators . . . This small-time vaudeville hoofer who never even got to the Palace . . . has developed into a small-time Hitler ... He has capitalized...
...Budapest this week handed down its decision: the four airmen had been tried, found guilty, fined $30,000 each or three months in jail. Hungary's ransom ring, which had made a lucrative haul in goods for the release of Businessman Robert Vogeler, was down to a simpler racket-a barefaced pursuit of hard cash...