Word: shakedowns
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...hearing room in Washington reeked with the ugly smell of shakedown, of labor hoodlums sweating behind the Fifth Amendment, of sordid fear, as testimony on the Chicago restaurant protection racket went into its second week. To the members of the Senate's labor-management investigating committee, it was quite clear that they had caught the scent of one of the dirtier trails in labor history...
...fill a current vacancy on the United States Naval Academy's Board of Visitors, the President last week appointed an old hand at curricular problems: brother Milton Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University. The job: to give Annapolis a three-day shakedown inspection once a year. The pay: $5 a day while...
...riot." Most of the papers, it turned out, were at least as factual as Boroff, who insisted to the press that what McDougle had objected to was merely a voluntary unloading of hot cargo, later was overheard to admit that his bad boys were subjected to a thorough shakedown each morning...
Pinch & Punch. What did the signs add up to? Answers ranged from a breather (Dwight Eisenhower) to a serious recession (Texas' easy-money Democratic Congressman Wright Patman). Various economists and businessmen called it recession, rolling readjustment, healthy adjustment, mild cyclical adjustment, slowdown, shakedown downturn, downtrend, sidewise movement, plateau, leveling off, period of hesitation, soft period, temporary cyclical swing in long-term growth, polka-dot prosperity with the spots getting bigger...
...show lacked the hippodrome theatrics of other-day TV hearings, it was a smoothly professional job, with Labor Reporter Clark Mollenhoff (Des Moines Register) and Du Mont's Matt Warren providing knowledgeable commentary. The show was marred only once: as Senator Kennedy illustrated shakedown techniques by playing tapped phone conversations involving extortion, Mollenhoff intruded with extraneous commentary...