Word: shakedowns
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...three days Willie Bioff prattled away about the troubles and triumphs of the shakedown industry. His recital not only damaged the defendants, but scorched U.S. workers who tolerate criminal union leadership and Hollywood bigwigs who take orders from the underworld...
...eight weeks' course falls into three periods: three weeks' academic instruction, two weeks' "shakedown cruise" at some naval station, then three weeks' more instruction at William & Mary. The Navy has its own ideas about the "shakedown cruise." Men from a rich parish can just about bank on being sent to a base with few facilities, while men from a poor church are assigned to a base with the finest equipment. The Navy considers this very broadening...
Sure, we're anxious to shove off too. We just thought we'd mention though, that maybe it wasn't such a bad "shakedown cruise" after...
...Harvard Service Fund is a new experiment in College fund collection. The Student Council has publicized the destination of all undergraduate contributions, and a systematic canvass will henceforth replace the traditional registration shakedown. This challenge to the high pressure collection methods of many charitable organizations promises equally judicious distribution...
Back up the ramp went the President's automobile. Aboard the King Haakon VII the little crew of freemen prepared for a shakedown cruise down the muddy Potomac River, for the hazardous stalking of U-boats in the North Atlantic, for the faraway hope of riding proudly into home port...