Word: racketeers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MELODRAMA THE RACKET-Chicago with its hair down (TIME...
...latest development of the Marines-in-Nicaragua racket which is still filling the public press and beginning to bore the populace, is a new squabble between Postmaster John J. Kiely and a protest organization which calls itself in the best athletic manner the All-American Anti-Imperialist League. The League wants to put stamps bearing the inscription. "Protest Against Marine Rule in Nicaragua" on the backs of envelopes. The Postmaster has decided, however, that the Marines can not be classed in the same boat with the "White Death", especially out of the Christmas season. He has forbidden the stamps passage...
While Mayor Thompson shouted and Chief Hughes compiled figures, leading citizens investigated for themselves. Besides the black eye which dramas like Chicago and The Racket were giving their city, citizens had become genuinely alarmed by hordes of crooks and thugs who, finding the alcohol and dope industries too highly organized to be profitable or even safe in Chicago, had turned to such bold badness as the "union racket"- a simple strongarm game, played with lead pipes and sawed-off shotguns, where the crooks formed "labor unions" of junk men, fish dealers, tailors, cobblers or other defenseless professionals, and shot...
Other able melodramas: THE RACKET, DRACULA, NIGHTSTICK...
Other able melodramas: THE RACKET, DRACULA, NIGHTSTICK, CELEBRITY...