Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, 35-year-old Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. filed blackmail charges against two men who, he claimed, had bilked him of some $13,000 since May 1933, when he met a slender blonde named Catherine Marie Pavlick at a party, started to take her home, wound up at a hotel. Month later, said Alfred Smith Jr., a private detective named Krone approached him on Miss Pavlick's behalf, got $1,000 allegedly to finance an abortion. Subsequently the son of the 1928 Democratic Presidential nominee said he had constantly remunerated Krone and a Brooklyn lawyer named Ross until...
...TIME [March 16] of disclosures of wholesale "pillage" of telegrams by the Black Committee of the Senate. This committee seems to be just a bunch of Paul Prys and Peeping Toms, and not hesitating at any illegality to accomplish its snooping ends, which seem to be just political blackmail of those who dare criticize the new deal. I am writing North Carolina Senators suggesting expulsion from the Senate of Senator Black for his outrageous violation of the Constitution he was sworn to uphold. I am also writing my Representative in Congress suggesting investigation of the Federal Communications Commission...
...Senator, further declared that the Federal Communications Commission, though empowered to examine telegraph companies' records for its own purposes, had no power whatever to seize private correspondence transmitted by these common carriers. That "pillage," cried the New Yorker, was an act of "terrorism" which led straight to political blackmail...
...because, "as any woman knows, forgetful, restful sleep will take out wrinkles." She is still defiant about having been tricked by the notorious Gaston B. Means into paying him $100,000 for the return of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. And she has told her children: "If you start paying blackmail you will never stop. . . . Fight...
...manners and a pretty wit. One Mrs. Austen now played ministering angel to Ben's despair, ar ranged for the anonymous publication of an other society novel, better than his abortive first. Vivian Grey's success soared quickly to notoriety: the reviewers accused Ben of everything from blackmail down. Ben's sensitive soul was crushed again, and Mrs. Austen whisked him off to Italy with her self and her husband. Of course Ben fell in love with her, but she kept him at a platonic distance. Ben stood it as long as he could, then went abroad...