Word: racketeer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Capone emissary, one Michael J. Galvin of the so-called Teamsters' and Chauffeurs' Union (one of Chicago's 33 "racket" unions), was not, however, detained. Instead he was "invited to leave the judge's chambers...
Some Gibbonish of the first day: "You know this columning business is SH-S-H! It's a racket. The boys all have their territory charted out, with grim red lines marking the boundaries ? 'OH, YOU TAKE THE HIGH BROW AND I'LL TAKE THE LOW BROW'? That's the way the system works ? and as the dirt comes to me, an amateur starter is about as welcome as a stray Hip Sing in Mott Street. . . . Discovery that K. K. K. stood for 'Ku Klux Kon' has reduced the membership in the Klan from...
...were asking in their alumni weekly that football be restored to normal. Last week the alumni committee on athletics at the University of Pennsylvania charged in its annual report that college football has become "a contest between professional coaches and their systems," that it shows signs of becoming a "racket." Meanwhile the non-collegiate Public, considering football its own property by virtue of the money it spends on it, last week thought of a new use for the game A dentist wrote a letter to a Hearst sport colyumist* suggesting that colleges play charity games to help the unemployed. Many...
Babe Gordon is a Manhattan girl whose racket is to hang around prizefights, cultivate promising pugs, whom she then deprives of manhood and the possibility of winning championships. Like most girls of fiction she is young (19), beautiful, fatally alluring. Babe sees "Bearcat" Delaney in action, covets him, gets him, even marries him for a while. When the money is gone she leaves him flat, goes back to Harlem and joins the dope-peddling racket. After hours she has a high old time with "Money" Johnson, Negro gambling tycoon, then with Wayne Bald win, Manhattan socialite. She tricks...
...suffered much from the puppuppetty-pup of the machineguns. His power really was broken when his seven chief followers were riddled in his garage, St. Valentine's Day of 1929 (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929). He then seemed to have abandoned 'legging for an anti-Capone cleaning & laundry racket. Even so, one of his chief North Side henchmen, Jack Zuta, was spattered to death by slugs last summer in a Wisconsin dancehall (TIME, Aug. 11). Rumor said that Bugs last week came out of hiding to: 1) negotiate with Capone for a beer-peddling and gambling...