Word: racketeered
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...seven years, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, around certain poolrooms, bars, candy stores where idle young hoodlums gathered to swagger, play the slot machines, a sinister kind of talent had been for sale at bargain prices: anything from roughing up and terrorizing a racket victim to "removing" a State's witness, killing stool pigeons and underworld rivals. The killers worked for small pay: Pretty Levine, who told reporters he joined the gang at the age of 13, confessed he took part in the Sage killing for a net profit of one dollar...
...This racket-free, high-fidelity performer is Frequency Modulation (FM) broadcasting, hailed by many as the radio technique of the future. Already in operation experimentally in the U. S. are 16 FM stations; some 80 others are licensed or have applied for licenses. General Electric, Stromberg-Carlson, Scott have sets for sale at $70 up. Zenith, Pilot, Stewart-Warner, others are preparing lines...
Most Dewey listeners last week knew the broad outlines of the story of Dewey the Racket-Buster: his appointment, at 28, as Chief Assistant United States Attorney, the conviction of Beer Baron Waxey Gordon, the runaway grand jury that balked at the frail measures of a lethargic Tammany prosecutor, Governor Lehman's appointment of Tom Dewey (married, father of one, earning $50,000 a year) as Special Prosecutor - and then the bang-up conclusion with Racketeers Luciano, Pennochio, Coulcher, et al. going to jail for 15, 20, 30 to 50 years, and the linking of rackets to Tammany Hall...
...York, with 79% convictions in 3,253 General Sessions Court cases, 14 convictions in first-degree murder cases (six acquittals), 9,703 convictions in 14,063 misdemeanor cases, along with the head lined smashing of the policy ring, the break-up of a prostitution syndicate. Dewey the Racket-Buster drew crowds, but stories, reputation and record told little of Dewey the Presidential Candidate. And to Westerners properly suspicious of the Big City, his record might add up to the fact, not that Dewey is capable, but that there are a lot of crooks in Manhattan...
...Party) with the text of its sermon for 1940. When he ran against Lehman for Governor, he was up against an opponent faultlessly liberal, mellowed, with no disquieting ambitions. Nevertheless Dewey got in his say on housing, a balanced budget, collective bargaining, unemployment insurance, and told graphic stories of racket-busting in the process...