Word: blackmailed
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...Indian Princes, His Highness the progressive and benign Gaekwar of Baroda; second, the acquisitive and stern "Richest Man in the World," His Exalted Highness, the also progressive and enlightened Nizam of Hyderabad; and third, the weak and pleasure-loving Prince who was the victimized "Mr. A" of a notorious blackmail case in England twelve years ago (TIME, Oct. 25, 1925 et ante), His Highness the polo-playing Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir. Of these three paramount potentates only the Nizam has had gumption to battle the British for every possible concession Hyderabad can wangle out of the new Constitution. Chief battler...
...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...
...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...