Word: blackmailed
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...turn to the two-thirds rule, under which Southerners for many decades exercised an absolute veto power on the convention's choice of presidential candidates. Unless these demands are listened to with respect, the "bolting" Southerners have instructions to use a little none-too-subtle blackmail...
...Agata had other ideas. When her father was deported for rubbing out a rival, she took charge of his gang, whose activities included bank robbery, kidnapping, blackmail, extortion. Soon she muscled in on the Rosario race track, cleaned up by fixing the races. With her head triggerman, Arturo Placeres, Agata liked to speed through the streets of Rosario in a black Packard sedan with impressive (but faked) number plates...
Thus, after two thoughtful years in jail, wily Willie last week recalled with regret the old easy-come blackmail days. The defense attorney for Willie's eight ex-pals attempted to show that Hollywood's czars were as unprincipled about paying out the big money as Willie and the "boys from Chicago" were about taking it. Did Willie know that bribery, as well as extortion, was a criminal offense? Did he know that in New York a person who pays money to a shakedown expert might be liable under the bribery laws? Shakedown Expert Bioff considered the idea...
...Said Blackmailer Bioff: yes, he knew the defendants well. Seven of them were "The Syndicate" that had helped him filch at least $1 million in union dues, and blackmail the czars of Hollywood on a Hollywood scale. Staring coldly back at Willie Bioff's fat, pointing finger was an all-star police lineup: Gunman Paul ("The Waiter") de Lucia; pistol-packing ex-Capone Muscleman Phil D'Andrea; Beer-war Veteran Charles ("Cherry-Nose Joy") Gioe; Machine-gun Expert Louis ("The Man to See") Compagna; Frank ("The Immune") Maritote, alias Frankie Diamond; 14-time indicted Ralph Pierce; John Rosselli...
...judicious combination of blackmail, privilege and loot, Himmler has gathered a fortune. By 1940 he had invested no less than $2,200,000 in South American countries, the Syrian carpet trade, Finland's pulp industry, life-insurance policies...