Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this did not satisfy McCarthy, who had charged Stevens with "blackmail," but now seemed to wish that the accused would assert his innocence by passing the buck up the chain of command...
...impression given by the Senators' testimony was that Adams had used the Cohn-Schine report to attempt a form of bureaucratic blackmail. But Adams had a different explanation of how the Schine case came to be coupled with the subpoenas to the Army loyalty board...
Bureaucratic Blackmail? Fluttering his eyelashes at the television cameras, Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen was placed under oath and told how John Adams and White House Aide Gerald Morgan came to his office last Jan. 22 to urge against the subcommittee's calling Army loyalty panelists. It was then, Dirksen said, that he heard for the first time of the Cohn-Schine matter. Although he could not say that Adams actually tried to use the Cohn-Schine report as a club, Dirksen said that he had a "vague" recollection of "hints" in that direction, all of which caused...
Police tracked down the two longshoremen and found that The Rabbit had sold the pistol to a hoodlum named John ("Chappy") Mazziotta. The police theory of Schuster's murder was that if Mazziotta killed him, it was out of sheer spite, because Chappy's plans to blackmail Willie Sutton were spoiled by Schuster's good deed. The police, though bright enough to turn this up, were not bright enough to find Mazziotta, despite 100,000 "wanted" posters and the efforts of some 25 city detectives assigned to the Full-time job of looking...
...similar causes. Arbenz took over from there: ¶On the H-bomb: all the tests must be halted, atomic weapons must be banned. ¶On the recent U.S. note asking a $15 million indemnity to the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co. for 233,973 acres of expropriated banana lands: "Blackmail." ¶ On his political opposition:"They work like criminals at night painting numbers on walls. Under the innocent number 32, they hide their true aim, which is to destroy our constitutional liberties...