Word: racketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago the Milwaukee's Olympian carried Presidential Candidate Thomas Edmund Dewey up the mountain. Behind him lay 1) a record as a racket-buster so phenomenal that people were tired of hearing about it; 2) a record as a politician based on the narrow margin (about 64,000 votes) by which he was defeated for the Governorship of New York in 1938; 3) a favorite's position as voters' preconvention choice-56%, according to the Gallup poll-in the race for the Republican nomination. And before him, besides the Western ranges, lay a series of talks...
...popular opinion is divided on that question quickly became manifest. Some sports writers applauded, some raised eyebrows. Chicago reprinted and sent to its alumni an article in The American Mercury by John R. Tunis, who described many a shady practice, charged that U. S. college football was "an unsavory racket...
...prison, Walter McGee told of how Mary behaved when the kidnappers held her. "She told us she was our friend but didn't like our racket. I asked her if she ever saw me at a dance, if she would dance with...
...bird by the name of Mert Curtis, who used to sing for Russ Morgan. . . . Victor claims that it is going to swipe Duke Ellington, Horace Heldt, Kay Kayser, and a couple of other bands away from Columbia records in February. All we can say is that this record racket, which totalled 70,000,000 sales last year, is really getting vicious...
...witnesses. Ten of the 23 for the Government were felons, including: paunchy Yasha Katzenberg, described by the League of Nations as an "international menace," organizer of a $10,000,000 dope ring into which, he said Lepke muscled; Benny Schisoff, Coney Island frozen-custard man, implicated in the racket but free on a suspended sentence; John McAdams, Customs sergeant who accepted bribes to let trunkloads of drugs from transatlantic liners pass through Customs gates. Odorous was the tale they told of a narcotics organization which coiled around the U. S., China, Europe, a story of underworld big business, dark deeds...