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Word: blackmail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman cousin. Total murders: about twelve. Travelers on the road between Ajaccio and Sopigna paid him tribute as a matter of course. In 1931 when Depression-hit Corsicans asked for a reduced tribute, he ended the quibble by ducally closing the road for two months. Other income: extortion, blackmail. To this local boy who had made good rallied many an ambitious young Corsican. On the grounds that he mulcted the rich, he was popular with the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Capture of Spada | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...stroke of policy." the Duke of Northumberland's Morning Post warned against a "disorderly race of currency depreciation." The angriest shriek came from the Financial News: "Wilful sabotage could not go much further. . . . The whole business has been deliberately planned in cold blood as a piece of diplomatic blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Receiving the World | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...CASE OF THE VELVET CLAWS- Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Cynical Lawyer Mason, faithful only to his clients, balances murder with blackmail, earns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Mar. 27, 1933 | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...CASE OF THE APRIL FOOLS-Christopher Bush-Morrow ($2). Ludovic Travers sees jest turned to murder. Blackmail leads to double death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Mar. 27, 1933 | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...Hari Singh, Maharaja of Kashmir, celebrated several years ago as "Mr. A." in one of Britain's best-known blackmail cases-a knight grand commandery of the Star of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Merit & Persistence | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

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