Word: racket
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When the University prohibited students, under penalty of "disciplinary action," from attending any of the Square cram schools it insured the ultimate demise of a racket which in the past ten years has materially lowered the prestige of a Harvard degree. It also recreated a problem which must not be overlooked. For partly behind the growth of the outlawed tutoring schools was a legitimate educational need--that of organized pre-final reviews. Not all the students who in the past attended commercial reviews did so in order to get crammed with facts they were too lazy to learn for themselves...
...newspapers, the county seat and an unconscionable amount of static. Last summer so many irate listeners complained to the city fathers of vacuum cleaner, heating pad and electric razor interference in their radios that the august body had a survey made. Offenders were asked to install condensers and other racket-eliminating gadgets. Few did. So last week the municipally-owned electric company sent electricians from door to door. Methodically they began installing condensers where necessary, charging them to the householder's monthly bill. Penalty for refusing to permit installation or to pay the bill was drastic: no electric power...
...raided its "classroom" and carried away two taxi-loads of notes to be burned at the Federal Building. In fact this week has seen a widening as well as a strengthening of the anti-cram-school front, for Princeton has just inaugurated a vigorous campaign to wipe out the racket...
...about indestructible India." No other books seemed to be advertised. Now this story is written in a strongly anti-British vein. I enjoyed reading it very much, but twice I remember hurling it to the ground with rage at its prejudice, injustice and ignorance. Goebbels is running this India racket, I am certain of it. Why should at least three questions about India be asked at every one of Duff's lectures in the U. S. A.? Who sends the lecturers from India to America to complain of British rule ? The Indians are not asking for America...
...Racket-Buster Dewey last autumn became merely Buster Dewey, in sarcastic appreciation of his age, 38. Now Buster began to get some of the old meaning back. But much remained to be done, perhaps too much, before Mr. Dewey became the G. 0. P. nominee; when it came to lining up delegates, harelike Mr. Dewey hadn't yet overtaken Robert the Tortoise Taft...