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...writer has just read about the Supreme Court decision in regard to the Fuller Brush Co. [TIME, March 22]. The issuance of door-to-door peddling licenses has gotten to be quite a racket in some of the smaller towns of this Slate. If a farmer goes to town with a load of peaches or watermelons they take his finger prints like he was a criminal. Some peddlers have learned to drive by the Mayor's home and leave a big watermelon or bushel of peaches. Then things are hunka dory. Insurance men get in a town and make...
...finest present of his life. It was given him by a jury which for more than nine weeks had been listening to the case he had built up, as New York City's brilliant Special Prosecutor, against seven men accused of running a Manhattan restaurant racket...
...former auto-stealing racket in Brooklyn was explained by Hince, who told of how all the Cadillacs and Packards were catalogued by the chief of operations. Orders giving specific descriptions of the kind of car wanted were made in Sweden and Norway, sent over to Brooklyn, and the chief then supplied...
...suites of offices, to divert his eye from the verities of Broadway. When his son Sidney, breaking in with Mills Music, called up to get Calloway to play a tune he was promoting, Mr. Mills had him turned down cold "to convince him that song-plugging is a tough racket...
Dean Holmes' report outlines a positive policy for preparing sound teachers that is strikingly clear. It is an analysis that might well serve as the guide-post for many universities now engaged in the education "racket...