Word: racket
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week bluff, hearty old Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines. on trial as political fixer for New York City's numbers racket (TIME. Sept. 5), had heard a long string of criminals readily admitting bribery, thuggery and perjury in building their $20,000,000-a-year gambling racket. Last week Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey called two more witnesses embarrassing to the defense...
Another witness was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the racket's smooth young mouthpiece, whose career at the bar, a polar opposite to that of 36-year-old Thomas Edmund Dewey, was fully as precocious. Having turned State's evidence in hope of saving his hide, Davis answered most Dewey questions with a bright "That's right." He described his association with the racket's murdered boss, Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, and with Jimmy Hines. At 27. said Dixie, he had five lawyers working for him and paid $7,500 a year in office rent. He described...
...Down Under was a twosome: 25-year-old Adrian Quist, a fifth year Davis Cupper rated by many as the world's No. 2 amateur; and 19-year-old John Bromwich, a sophomore who caused a sensation in international tennis last year with his either-handed, both-handed racket grip. On the U. S. side was the world's No. 1 amateur, U. S.-English-French-Australian Champion Donald Budge; his doubles partner, Gene Mako; and 20-year-old Robert Riggs, the Los Angeles "quickie" who in two years had jumped from the municipal tennis courts to next...
...campaign was billed as the first really cooperative venture in cinema history. Executive Chairman George J. Schaefer (United Artists) explained it as the same kind of campaign that gets people to eat more bread. Outside the industry it was conceded that if his salaryless committees made enough racket they might get enough new customers to pay their expenses. But no amount of racket would call off the Department of Justice's impending suit...
...Columbia). Part of the campaign now being conducted by Hollywood studios to persuade the U. S. Department of Justice that there is real competition in the cinema business is a competitive race to the screen with accounts of how a mettlesome, unsleeping special prosecutor breaks up rackets. In I Am the Law, Edward G. Robinson looks less like New York's District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey than Chester Morris did (Smashing the Rackets) or Walter Abel (Racket Busters). He plays the part of a law school professor, an authority on criminal law, absentminded, mild as milk. On a leave...