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...Racket" seems to have come originally from the vaudeville world, where it connoted the form of entertainment in which a performer specialized. "His racket is mammy songs." "She's got a good racket -clog-dancing and trained poodles." From this it entered general circulation to connote any method, especially an easy one, a hackneyed one, or a smart new one with an element of trickery, by which people got along in the world. Its later, criminal adaptation has two shades of meaning: 1) the whole general ''Racket" of preying on society by any and all illegal means...
...more to the Federal Farm Board, thus tacitly approving its wheat-market operations. Such operations had been approved and called a success by a meeting of farm-organization heads and agricultural legislators before Congress convened. Despite broad objections by Senator Borah, who wants the export debenture form of farm aid, and specific objections by Senators Black and Tydings, who tried to stop the Board's trading in commodity futures and on margin, the bill was rammed through before the holiday adjournment, went to the President...
...France still has a form of likin in the octroi or market tax collected on goods brought into big cities. In Italy, II Ducc abolished a similar tax (dazio consumo) year...
Each of the 360 U. S. chests needs executive directors or secretaries. They form a new profession always certain of employment. The Association of Community Chests & Councils has created and partly finances a school for their training. It is the School of Social Administration, one of Ohio State University's graduate schools. Students must possess the minor A. B. or B. S. degrees, must study one year ?three months in field work, the rest in sociology and allied courses...
...different has been the history of Brown Bros. & Co., as antiquely respectable among financial houses as Brown's Hotel of London is among hostelries. It was formed in 1825 by Alexander Brown, previously a linen merchant, and in 1833 devoted itself exclusively to finance. For 75 years the firm has been friendly with all Scandinavian countries. In England it is well known through its associate, Brown, Shipley & Co., in which Montagu Norman was a partner before he became head of the Bank of England. In Brown Bros, originated the Traveler's Letter of Credit. From the day when the first...