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...Since when is [Policy Racketeer] Dutch Schultz, quondam resident of these parts, a Jew? If you have names of persons who are conducting a policy racket. I know of several agencies to whom such information would be extremely helpful...
...again, in Los Angeles. Peter was apparently a typical drifter, nervous, unsettled, unhappy, a newspaperman who never stayed in one place more than a few months. Gradually he got Peter's story out of him. Peter's brother, Andy, was the "front" for the Los Angeles beer racket and one of Capone's lieutenants. A goodhearted, not too brainy racketeer, he supported Peter, kept trying to persuade him to join his mob. But Peter wanted to be a writer. Moreover he had run across his cousin Jack, who had become an I. W. W. organizer, and whose...
CHICHI-Rachel Grant-Crowell ($2). Amusing, lightly satirical story of the Manhattan author-publisher racket...
Though Skagway was his last resting place, Denver still remembers Jefferson Randolph Smith as one of the most picaresque figures of its bad old days. A slight, dapper, persuasive man, with a silver tongue and a front of brass, his original racket was selling soap on the street. He sold two kinds: in one pile an ordinary "miracle-working" soap, at 25? a cake; in the other, bars at five dollars, whose wrappers enfolded an occasional banknote. The crowd of suckers could see Soapy wrapping his wares in real money, sometimes a $50 bill, but somehow none but his confederates...
...small idea how the rest of Oglethorpe felt when he trod the campus. Two things are hated by all good Oglethorpe men and Instructor Yagol represented both of them. One is Emory University, which Oglethorpe's ebullient President Thornwell Jacobs once accused of running an "Al Capone racket" to keep Oglethorpe graduates out of teaching jobs in Atlanta schools. The other, thanks largely to Hearst beneficence, is Communism. Nathan Yagol, imprisoned ten days last autumn for attending a Communist meeting, was coming to lecture on Russia...