Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cahoots with Rack eteer Elkins. Cried District Attorney Langley, a Democrat elected in 1954 with strong Teamsters' support: "Reports that I have plotted with the Teamsters are a pack of lies." He charged that the tapes were doctored and spurious, accused Racketeer Elkins of trying to blackmail him with them...
...mass or energy to move the Soviet leaders against their will. In Moscow he had desperately accepted a bad bargain, swapping diplomatic recognition for the release of a handful of war prisoners. His intimates say he returned to Bonn last September feeling he had been broken by blackmail and hating himself for it. Three weeks later, weary, downhearted and restless, he took a lonely walk one foggy night along the murky Rhine, hands clasped behind his back. Next day he came down with bronchial pneumonia...
British and American diplomats, though glumly mindful of the political blackmail involved, are still convinced that the Aswan dam is a worthy project, and that it had better be built by the West...
...thing-the sudden Soviet pressure for a treaty of friendship implying that any agreement on Germany depends on the U.S. accepting this treaty calls for most careful consideration. We must not appear to the free peoples of the world either to reject offers of friendship or to submit to blackmail...
...McCarthy was riding highest in 1953, a flush-faced man named Paul Hughes held out a bright promise to some of the Senator's bitterest foes. The promise: he could unhorse McCarthy with a dossier of "proof" that the Senator's investigators were resorting freely to burglary, blackmail, bribery and frame-ups to serve McCarthy's ends. Last week Hughes went on trial in a Manhattan federal courtroom on a charge of perjury, in what, a U.S. attorney called "one of the most fantastic schemes to make money in the annals of modern political intrigue...