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...rate, and then grant wholesale abatements. The voters are impressed with the low rate, but the city cannot meet its expenses. The debt has mounted up through the years to over $100 million. Although the Board of Assessors' new chairman, David L. Driscoll, has largely eliminated this racket, and Hynes has retired a small part of the debt, the deficit is still large...
...naping"' begins as a summertime lark, soon burgeons into a well-organized, well-paying racket whose wealthy victims are invariably demoralized by the sight of the gang's own dog picking up the ransom at the payoff rendezvous. When the spoils grow too large for the nine youngsters to spend safely on themselves, they transform Montmartre with such anonymous good deeds as giving an elderly couple the funds for a marriage license to celebrate 40 years of unwedded bliss...
Willie had quite a few ideas on morality. When asked about the "mob," he shot back: "People are mobs that makes 6% more on the dollar than anybody else does," and added: "Jeez, everything is a racket today. The stock market is a racket. Why not make everything legal?" The audience laughed and Willie was pleased...
Reuther wanted much more than that. Regulation W, said he, was a "rich man's racket" which made it impossible for the workingman to buy a car. With no real documentation to back him up, Reuther said that the "meat-ax approach" of Regulation W, plus cutbacks in critical materials, would throw no less than 321,000 auto workers out of work. Reuther had a meat-ax approach of his own: slap immediate controls on everything except wages...
Trevor Howard plays an archeologist turned amateur sleuth, who meets Anonk, a French barmaid, soon after his arrival in the Tunision hamlet of Kabarta, but not too seen for him to have already stumbled onto a gun-running racket when his car was blocked by a landslide during a heavy rainstorm. Anouk's brother Max turns out to be mixed up with the gang, so the love affair between the archaeologist and the barmaid gets awfully massy...