Sentence examples for policy racket from inspiring English sources

In 1936, Holstein was convicted of running a policy racket in 1936 and was imprisoned for a year.

When we read of the Jules Brulatour affair, we knew that Mr. Dewey was up against something stiffer than a policy racket.

Tells about his campaign against election frauds, income tax, and the policy racket and some of the cases he has won against them.

The New Yorker, February 4 , 1939P. 11 When we read of the Jules Brulatour affair, we knew that Mr. Dewey was up against something stiffer than a policy racket.

By Ernest LaFrance and Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, February 4 , 1939P. 11 When we read of the Jules Brulatour affair, we knew that Mr. Dewey was up against something stiffer than a policy racket.

The policy rackets have been operating in New York practically since gamblers learned to count.

Born in the Bronx, Schultz took his alias from an old-time Bronx gangster and advanced from burglaries to bootlegging, ownership of breweries and speakeasies, and policy rackets in the Bronx and parts of Manhattan.

Mostly, this lackadaisical open door policy ushers in unlistenable racket.

Based on the investigation of a 1960s heroin racket, this breathless policier accelerates steadily to bullet velocity.

Policy 33, 1167 1183] on the tennis racket industry shows that independent inventors are a heterogeneous group which includes both "heroes" who contribute substantially to technological progress and "hobbyists" who make only a marginal contribution.

Around 1920, he became involved in policy and quickly became one of the most successful figures in that racket.