Word: racketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nationals and to have collaborated on newspaper articles with the late Author Edgar Wallace, told all about the dyeing of Aknahton, gave out valuable hints on "ringing'' in general: "It's the softest thing in the world to ring a horse, but it's a racket, like anything else. . . . You must know the markings of the horse so the 'ringer' can be made up accordingly. It costs about $100 to dye a horse. . . . Before you put the dye on it's necessary to sweat the horse and dry him out. . . . "When we rung...
Capone talked about other things besides the Lindbergh baby. He discussed the Chicago beer situation, told how he had given employment to "at least 300 men . . . in the harmless beer racket." He dwelt upon the injustice of his incarceration and Editor Brisbane printed it. For Hearstreaders who wondered about Capone's appearance, Editor Brisbane recommended a study of the equestrian statue of Colleoni* in the Chicago Art Institute on Michigan Boulevard...
...watched bulletins, took the whole affair for a hoax the first day. Herbert Hoover spurred Government sleuths from a Cabinet meeting. Mrs. Hoover, cruising in Florida, sent ashore for news. In Chicago Col. Robert Isham Randolph of the "Secret Six" warned the nation again about the rich, swift-growing racket of abduction for extortion, helped circulate a new gangland name for kidnappers: snatchers. Also in Chicago, more precisely in Cook County jail where he is waiting a last appeal against an eleven-year Federal sentence, "Scarface Al" Capone interested himself in the Lindbergh case. Offering a $10,000-reward...
Federal Law. There are many U. S. children whose parents could afford to pay rich ransom for their return were they kidnapped. But no kidnappee in the land could arouse so much public indignation against the kidnapping racket as Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...eyes being bigger than you stomach promptly rush into a self-serving lunch room and try to make their stomachs bigger than their eyes." Mr. Allen now began climbing inside a polar explorer's fur suit, remarking or the general depression in the theatre business. "The trouble with this racket is that all the shows has gone out of the hands of the theatrical families who knew how to amuse people, and into the hands of the business men who don't know a good show from high school and other where talent used to be tried...