Word: racketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sands Point washroom, should be make himself known. Nor did the Kingfish let any scaweed grow under his finny big foot. He has written a friendly letter, open and anonymous to Al Capone (Morgan-owned) telling how that tax-dodger can become friendly with the big-men in his racket, it is headed "J.P. Morgan and Co Points Way for Capone's Release," and is signed merely "Subscribe to the American Progress." So diplomacy may succeed where the gentle art of self-defense failed, and the best defense is a gallant offense such as libel. If Capone claims the reward...
...blatant behavior on the ground that he fears that Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Olson, identified with the whole Roosevelt program, will oppose him on his next senatorial campaign. Schallisms: "NRA no longer stands for National Recovery Act. It stands for National Ruin Association . . . [variant : National Racket Administration]. "Premier General Johnson - Wall Street partner of Barney Baruch, the broker- has declared a five-week campaign to put across the five-year plan of Premier Stalin of Russia. . . . "The Blue Eagle is a Russian fish hawk. "Why keep Capone in Atlanta? . . . Why not call him out to lead the retail...
...asked to see its president, Maxwell H. Brown. Told that Mr. Brown was out they made an appointment to see him. Returning later, they were ushered into the office of a dignified, white-haired executive. Straightway they fell to questioning him, accused him of operating a chain-selling racket, collecting $2,000 a day from deluded women who sent in $1 for six pairs of silk stockings. Untycoonlike confusion came over the venerable businessman. He stammered as if with stage fright, finally broke down, confessed he was not Maxwell H. Brown but Theodore C. Packard, 65, unemployed actor. He said...
...several chief industries declared themselves satisfied with bank accommodations offered. Decorum was preserved until an Irish-Canadian barrister, Gerald Grattan McGeer, K.C.. representing the Vancouver Trades & Labor Council, got the floor. For three and one-half hours he harangued the Commission, lambasted Canadian banking as a "credit racket'' which was strangling commercial life. He told the Commission that it was "trying to patch up an oxcart instead of buying an automobile" (i.e. nationalizing credit...
...CASE OF MARIE CORWIN-Gregory Dean-Covici, Friede ($2). A New York blackmail racket leads to an unsolved death, until a newly appointed commissioner makes an epilog solution...