Word: blackmailer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motive is to provide a haven for Housekeeper Ellen's beloved though wacky sisters) might have gone unnoticed if Albert (Louis Hayward), a renegade nephew of the sisters, had not shown up at the old manor house. He guesses Auntie Ellen's guilty secret and attempts to blackmail her. Their clash of wits and wills finally ends disastrously for both...
...Lincoln, two of whose brothers were in the Southern Army, was long wrongly accused of sending information to Richmond. She gathered strange persons around her and some of them tried to blackmail her. After her son Willie died (of typhoid), she would start from her sleep at night...
...Actual blackmail for political ends by gathering discreditable information about the public and private lives of notables. "It is perfectly true that the Nazi political services comb the gossip columns . . . and a sterling anti-Nazi gossiper like Walter Winchell would probably be horrified if he knew the strategic uses to which some of his little scoops might...
...years before and their three children. Since 1933 her husband has been an underground fighter against Hitler and he is about to sneak back into Germany with funds for the movement. But his secret is discovered by another Washington house guest, a decadent Rumanian (George Coulouris), who tries to blackmail the German by threats of informing the Nazi embassy. The German finally kills the blackmailer, says farewell to his wife and children, and leaves on his frightening mission...
...important section of Labour's Aims in War and Peace deals with the Soviet attack on Finland, which the Labor Party's official statement calls "bribery, deception, blackmail, aggression. . . ." In the Party's Peace Declaration the Russian attack is called "a shameless imitation of the Nazi technique in foreign policy." This is an important trend. Just as British appeasers were taken in by Hitler's anti-bolshevist policy, so most British labor leaders were taken in by Stalin's Popular Front tactic. That part of labor's self-deception, at least, is apparently over...