Word: racketeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Racket Ruckus. Every member of Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets investigating committee is fervently against labor rackets, but some members are beginning to raise a private eyebrow at the way Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy, 32, runs the show. "The Senators," says a Republican member of the committee, "don't have the slightest idea who is to be called, but we can read the witness lists in the newspapers. The witnesses are gangsters, and you can't defend them. Even so, a lot of the things that are done are unfair. For example, staff investigators...
Moving swiftly one morning last week after a month of patient investigation, FBI agents in six states solved the puzzle of fraud in newspaper puzzle contests (TIME, March 9). In 86 minutes and twelve arrests they cracked the international racket that, by securing advance answers to the contests, swindled U.S. newspapers for more than a year. The transcontinental swoop bagged two key figures in Detroit: Walter Rex Johnston, 30, part-time car salesman whom the FBI identified as chief architect and brains of the swindle ring, and a key Johnston lieutenant, Harry H. Balk, 33, theatrical booking agent. Two Canadians...
...months the racket worked like silk, as long as it relied on known and trusted contact men such as Lawrence A. Dyson, 32, South Philadelphia, brother of Joseph Dyson. Lawrence Dyson won $6,050 from the Philadelphia Bulletin. In the Bulletin case, the fixers overcame a last-minute effort to thwart their game: they learned that one letter in the solution had been changed, submitted 24 entries to cover all possibilities...
This element of risk was too much for one Radcliffe student, who pointed to a story in yesterday's This Week magazine concerning a male escort service which served as the. "front" for a blackmail racket...
...Newfoundland, where Premier Joey Smallwood is renowned as one of labor's best friends, one of labor's worst friends got a toe hold almost surreptitiously. Jimmy Hoffa and his racket-ridden International Brotherhood of Teamsters quietly set up two locals with 1,200 members. Alarmed, Smallwood last week bounced into the provincial legislature to denounce Hoffa & Co. as "pimps, panderers, white slavers, murderers, embezzlers, extortionists and dope peddlers." The legislators speedily responded with a sledgehammer law: the provincial government can now dissolve any local upon evidence that a "substantial number" of its union officers have been convicted...