Word: racketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vaccines are no use . . . they are not worth the trouble. . . . Vitamins don't prevent colds or cure them. There's a bit of a racket there. ... If you take no drugs, your cold lasts 14 days; if you take drugs, it lasts a fortnight...
...Manhattan-a town whose citizens assay high for canniness-a leisure-loving group of bums made a delightful discovery last year. They discovered that life and even love on the dole was not such a bad racket. A sharp operator could live in a good hotel room (even when travelers were being turned away) and get generous allowances for restaurant meals simply by talking fast and avoiding employment. And he could sometimes live the good, gay life for months without hindrance by welfare authorities...
...York World-Telegram printed embarrassing stories. Then New York's Republican state government, which contributes a lion's share of the relief funds dispensed by the city Democratic regime, began investigating. Last week, at a public hearing, State Department of Social Welfare Supervisor Bernard Shapiro lifted the racket...
...Wheat at $3 a bushel had sprouted a rash of "wheatleggers." Organized like racketeers, they case a remote granary, on a quiet night back their trucks up close, bore a hole, and fill up. A single haul may be worth as much as $1,300. Said Jake Sims, director of Oklahoma's Bureau of Criminal Investigation: "They've got a better racket than the bank robber. It's not only safer-there's more money...
...passed, Princeton's leadership rests with "keeping standards high," according to Gordon W. Allport '19, Professor of Social Relations, a top public opinion expert himself. "Public opinion polling occupies such a crucial position in our life," he declared Monday, "that we cannot permit it to degenerate into a racket. In this connection Princeton's archives and journal set high levels for both ethical and technical performance...