Word: shakedowns
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...Kansas City shakedown was not notably different from the small-time racketeering in many U. S. cities. Typical, too, was the comparative apathy of the victims -employers and employes-and the police. But in the office of the Kansas City Journal-Post, a body of evidence was accumulating. The Journal-Post has the doleful distinction of having been the first U. S. paper to mention the availability of Alfred Mossman Landon as a Presidential candidate. Six weeks ago, the Journal-Post finally completed its pipeline into the racketeering sewer, gushed forth the story. It gave evidence of unpunished vandalism...
...Charleston last week the President was piped over the side, of the Navy's sleek, light cruiser Philadelphia, about to put out on a six-day "shakedown cruise." Across the dock from the Philadelphia lay the ancient battle sloop. Hartford, which Rear Admiral Farragut comm.anded in the Civil War battle of Mobile Bay and the capture of New Orleans. Cried the President to Rear Admiral William Henry Allen, standing with his staff on the pier...
...summer of 1923, the U. S. S. Milwaukee lay in the harbor of Pago-Pago, second port of a long shakedown cruise to Suva, Sydney, Rabaul, Nouméa, etc. Coming on deck that morning I heard the engine roar of one of the biplanes she carried, and as I stepped over the hatch coaming I saw the plane just beginning to lift from the thrust of the catapult. Almost immediately, from an elevation of, perhaps, two hundred feet, she fell into the bay. Thus ended man's first brief flight in Samoa...
...Profits from the racket were $2,000,000 per year-all of which, by regular racket custom, was presumably paid by patrons in the shape of higher prices for food and drink. Union members were victimized no less than proprietors and patrons. Their racketeering officers called strikes solely for shakedown purposes, after which strikers were sent back to work usually with their pockets empty, no benefits won. All these charges, the prosecutor promised, would be detailed and proved by first-hand testimony. Assistant Herlands did not deliver his charge until week's end. Rest of the week had been...
...Toole a check for $3,000 payable to the State in settlement of past due liquor taxes, which, according to a later audit, should have amounted to more than $22,000. The manager also handed O'Toole $3,000 in cash. "This is positively the last shakedown, now, isn't it?" he asked...