Word: blackmailer
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When Delaware's Republican Senator John J. Williams first saw the profusion of ads in the Democratic Party's glossy, 178-page paean to the 89th Congress entitled Toward an Age of Greatness, his own reaction was that the Republic was headed toward an age of "political blackmail." Rising on the Senate floor to protest the Democrats' $1,000,000 bonanza, Williams - nicknamed "Whispering Willie" because of his barely audible speaking voice - protested...
...councillors involved, Maher and Goldberg, denounced Curry for "political blackmail" -- trying to use criminal charges to make them change their votes...
...performed in private (many of the laws also prohibit the same acts between man and wife). In effect, the arrests that are now made are for public or semipublic acts, including "soliciting," with homosexuals often trapped by plainclothesmen posing as deviates. There is also a constant opportunity for blackmail and for shakedowns by real or phony cops, a practice known as "gayola." Advocates of the Wolfenden position argue further that persecution by society only renders the neurotic homosexual more neurotic. A Church of England committee declared that the function of the law is to "protect young people from seduction...
...random robbery and mayhem. More and more, they are meeting the guerrillas face to face. "What is the guerrilla if not a criminal?" demands the canh sat commander, Colonel Pham Van Lieu. "He commits all the possible crimes-murder and rape, grand larceny and petty theft, extortion and blackmail...
Everybody talked about Mann, but nobody dared do anything, since his facts were unerringly accurate. Mann had his price but he rarely used direct blackmail. Instead he "sold" his victims advertising in Town Topics, stock in his corporation (which never paid a dividend), or subscriptions to his Fads and Fancies of Representative-Americans, the colonel's hypocritical who's who in society. John Jacob Astor bought. So did J. P. Morgan, Mrs. Collis Huntington, Clarence Mackay, three Vanderbilts and scores of others...