Racketeering is a comparatively new word in the American language, but an old bug bear in American history.
8 seconds sound clip from the Bullets or Ballots (1939) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:01:46 in the radio play.
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- Uncle Sam paid eight hundred thousand dollars for the ransom of imprisoned sailors.
- Until our Navy, under Stephen Decatur, forever ended this racket of the Barbary pirates.
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