Word: bunko
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William Hale Thompson, ex-mayor of Chicago, famed for his horn-blowing parties at Riverview (Chicago's Coney Island), told the U. S. to avoid "entangling alliances," explained how to use bunko parties to raise campaign money...
Senator Reed: "Mayor, what is a bunko party? I know the game, but I never knew it was used as an amusement...
...Thompson: "There are a couple of other games I know more about than I do that, Senator. I do not know anything excepting that I have addressed several bunko parties attended by ladies exclusively. I do not know where the bunko comes...
California had several interesting little situations going on at once. Governor Richardson was fighting to have one E. A. ("Big Hutch") Hutchings, Los Angeles bunko man, sent back to San Quentin to finish a prison term from which he was strangely paroled at a secret meeting of the prison directors last year. Up in the Imperial Valley they were investigating the fate of large public sums belonging to the county irrigation bureau. Property owners in Los Angeles sued the city and various contractors for alleged cost-boosting on harborside improvements...