Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fame of Dean Briggs' anecdote is now extended well beyond college circles. In a recent issue of the "Globe" the leading editorial quoted it (with the original modest fifty dollar stakes now swollen to several hundred!) as the "classic example of the most efficient way to nip threatened blackmail in the bud. The little story appears to be as susceptible of wide application as many an ancient parable. Harvard is to be congratulated for having presided at its birth...
...hyphenates saw their cause attacked and felt they were playing "a losing game." They felt something must be done to down the Loyal Coalition. They first attacked the character of some of its officers in what appears to be a "frame up," a case of blackmail. Next they were sued for money, and finally came the so called "expose" of the Loyal Coalition when a former official of that organization turned traitor and joined the Hearst papers in their recent attack on March 6. The first attack on the Executive Secretary seemed to have fallen flat. The same case...
...treaty. Then also the power of patronage is never so great as at the beginning of an administration, when a new president asks that a treaty be ratified. Nevertheless the minority senators are fighting on the side of the American people in preventing the secret passage of a "blackmail" treaty which does meet with public approval...
These union grafters, with their $10,000 salaries apparently added to by heavy bribes extorted from the contractors and corporations, have supplied the real sensation of the building trades investigation. Against such a system of blackmail as that which they put in force, the "hated capitalist" was bound to react. He reacted too far in seeking to prescribe union labor by the means of combination. But his error and offence in that respect should not throw the Lockwood investigation--or the Congressional--inquiry which is to follow--off the scent of the real and capital offence, which is the corruption...