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...exporting their goods at the old exchange rates. Few were in the monopoly position of Pakistan, which seemed to have decided that India could not get along without Pakistani jute and cotton and would have to pay at the pre-devaluation rate for them. (India promptly raised cries of "blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Pain | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Peter Hetenyi. Thereafter, as he rose in the Communist Party which he was supposed to destroy, this paper dogged him. Apparently everybody except the Communists had a copy of it. According to Rajk, the French Deuxieme Bureau, the Gestapo and U.S. Intelligence all used the paper to blackmail Rajk into serving them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Autobiography | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...would never do. The union's Communist leadership had been losing ground with the non-Communist rank & file. A peaceful settlement might undermine the militancy of the miners-and their leaders' position. They threatened to strike unless Gallagher granted all their demands. Considering this threat to be blackmail, Gallagher refused to hand down any decision until the strike threat was withdrawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: As in Berlin | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

This estimate smells of blackmail-but it also bears the bitter flavor of unpleasant truth. The West has a little time to decide whether Schmid's estimate is correct. But it does not have very long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Faceless Crisis | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Barty Fingal, a stringy bit of town scum, and his pal Pelancey, a handsome but dim-witted giant, find a compromising letter in a jacket sent to Pelancey's dry-cleaning shop. They decide to blackmail the man who wrote it, and their scheme is so successful that the poor fellow commits suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Crime of Weakness | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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