Word: racketeer
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...Racket" No season ends normally without the customary agitation over professionalism. This year's came from Professor George Owen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, naval architect and father of George Owen Jr., Harvard's famed all-round athlete who caused something of a sensation himself twelve years ago by describing football as "drudgery I never enjoyed." To the Cambridge (Mass.) Industrial Association Professor Owen declared that "the language of the coaches far outdistances the most colorful of the Navy speech," that universal subsidizing of football players was an open secret, that "the greatest offenders" were Notre Dame...
...speech delivered before the Cambridge Industrial Association yesterday, Professor George Owen, of M.I.T., accused Harvard along with Notre Dame and Ohio State, of conducting football as a "major racket...
...business, drew an income of $2,500 a week and became known in London's night clubs as "The Baron." In 1933 England shipped Baron Hartzell back to the U. S. and fortnight ago he took another trip, at Government expense, from Leavenworth to Chicago, headquarters of the racket for the past two years, to face a second fraud trial. In Chicago he and Otto G. Yant, bank cashier from Mallard, Iowa, who took over the enterprise after Hartzell's imprisonment, were chief defendants of the 41. Yant had been picked up by a detective from Chicago...
...faith of Drake Estate "heirs" knows no bounds. The Chicago mass trial had not got well under way before the Chamber of Commerce of Madison informed Postal Inspector Robert E. Lewis in Chicago that the racket was still going great guns in Wisconsin, was apparently unquenchable...
Many publishers, although they realize that this unpaid advertising is nothing less than a racket which cheapens the value of their paid advertising columns, have been afraid to interfere lest potent space-buyers be offended...