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Word: blackmailed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This element of risk was too much for one Radcliffe student, who pointed to a story in yesterday's This Week magazine concerning a male escort service which served as the. "front" for a blackmail racket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Escort Agency Courts 'Cliffe Students | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...President Eisenhower's weekly White House meeting with congressional leaders: Republican strategy in upcoming Capitol Hill maneuvers over an anti-racketeering labor bill. At Ike's urging, the G.O.P. will go all the way for a moderately tough Administration labor bill that would ban secondary boycotts and blackmail picketing. In the Senate Labor Committee, and then, if necessary, on the floor, Senate Republicans will attempt to substitute the Administration package for a milder bill introduced by Massachusetts Democrat Jack Kennedy. Since the House Labor Committee is distinctly unfriendly to Ike's bill, Minority Leader Charles Halleck will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAPITAL NOTES: Fears & Frustrations | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Thus the invaders must either blackmail Duvalier into cooperating or try to bounce him from office. To put a squeeze on Duvalier, Castro has given friendly refuge to Duvalier's archenemy, Planter Louis Dejoie, the defeated candidate in Haiti's mulatto-v.-black presidential elections in 1957. Dejoie confers daily with top rebel leaders, runs a program of incitement to revolt three nights a.week in French and Creole over Radio Progreso, a 5,000-watt Havana station. Fortnight ago, Dejoie announced a unity pact with rabble-rousing ex-President Daniel Fignole, a New York-based exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: In the Middle | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Police Justiciaire. By last week debonair, highly respected Jean Lacaze, complaining that "I am the victim of a blackmail plot," was in Santé Prison. His secretary Madame Richard broke down and confirmed Maïté's story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: LAffaire Lacaze | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...complex." Pastor Mangrum, who knows his licensed beverages from five years in a Skid Row parish in Detroit, told the tavern owners to join churches and work with community organizations. "If one denomination does not have need of you, except when it wants back-door contributions extracted through implied blackmail . . . you will find that the traditional Christian groups want you and need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Licensed Beverages | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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