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  "textContent": "The January 1936 issue of Real America magazine ran a long exposé by De Lysle Ferree Cass, general manager of the Illinois Intelligence Bureau, on a Depression-era racket — organized gangs of \"charity chiselers\" running phone-bank fundraisers out of Chicago and New York. — Read the rest \n\nThe post 1936 exposé: How Chicago's charity rackets worked appeared first on Boing Boing.",
  "title": "1936 exposé: How Chicago's charity rackets worked"
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