Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning the maid, unrepentant, tells her husband: "Why didn't you show me love was like that?" John Gilbert keeps all the balls of his intrigues in the air at once, climaxing villainy with villainy. He has persuaded the maid to run away with him, when she discovers his blackmail enterprises. He beats her up. Finally, by virtue of a unanimous convulsion of outrage, upstairs & downstairs, he is booted out of the castle. Striking is the audience's mounting pleasure as the busy chauffeur piles outrage on dirty trick...
...town banker. She asks him to draw up a codicil to her will, leaving the girl an imaginary fortune. That fixes that. She finds the other daughter in love with a lurking gangster. She tries to fix that too. At the same time she arranges a combination swindle and blackmail scheme against the town banker. When she goes back to the penitentiary to save her daughter from the gangster, she does it with a calloused resignation that makes her less the mother than the moll. Good scene: Alison Skipworth showing her autograph album with the two entries: "Prosperity, Herb" (says...
...confused with these major issues are the suits brought by many a small company, low in cash, against a rich competitor. Suits under anti-trust laws have developed into a well recognized form of business blackmail. With its last few thousand dollars (or a lawyer on a contingent fee) the small company threatens the big one with a suit for damages because of unfair competition. If a settlement is not forthcoming the racketeer sues for some staggering sum, the victim gets publicity bad for any business, possibly a government investigation...
...Hari tried unsuccessfully to hide his identity as victim in a blackmail plot under the pseudonym of "Mr. A." He saved himself $750,000, but had to call upon the British to attain his throne a year later. Since then Moslems in Kashmir have complained bitterly that all the best government places go to Hindus. Last autumn British troops saved his throne when the Mohammedans revolted. Reports last week said that 5,000 Hindus and Moslems have been killed in skirmishes since then. As fresh troops were being rushed across the Himalayas to save his throne again, Sir Hari suddenly...
...threatened with imprisonment for perjury because of a technical flaw in her marriage license. The Citizen dug up the story, opened fire on Judge Bostwick. circulated a petition, brought him to trial. The judge's ally, Publisher Harry Preston Wolfe's Columbus Dispatch, accused the Citizen of blackmail, gave battle by slashing its price from 2? to 1? (TIME...