Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demise she communicated the nature of her information to Irving Ben Cooper, Inquisitor Kresel's successor. She told him that she was a painter. Police investigation later revealed that her comfortable income came from "no legal sources." that she had an impressive police record for prostitution and blackmail. To Counsel Cooper, however, she insisted that her one-time husband and a city detective (who later was found to be Andrew B. McLaughlin, already on trial for extortion) had concocted evidence in 1923 which sent her to Bedford reformatory, lost her the custody of her child. Counsel Cooper advised...
...suit: An action brought by newlyweds who charged their broker (female) with "blackmail" because she tried to collect from the groom's parents her 211 mark...
...verdict: "Case dismissed. This court finds no evidence of blackmail. It is the most natural thing in the world today to marry through a matrimonial broker. Probably 30% of all German marriages are made in this way. Clients ought to feel duty-bound to compensate their broker who enjoys no legal protection...
...United States and brought a bunch of Communists with him. It was decided by him to 'teach Americans a lesson.' Telegrams were sent to Moscow with the request to divert orders from the United States to other countries. The Amtorg is now engaged in trying to blackmail the United States into recognizing the Soviet government...
...badger game" is so old a criminal trick that dictionaries describe it. A dishonest woman lures a lickerish man into her apartment. Suddenly appears the '"husband," who for cash will overlook his "wife's" indiscretion. Occasionally such blackmail is worked by low men upon rich women. Rarely have the victims sufficient hardihood to resist the imposition...