Word: blackmailer
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...Unfortunately the Chinese-language press has not, by and large, achieved a high level of development. Subsidy and blackmail are not infrequent features of Chinese journalism. Many of the acts and violence perpetrated against editors have been the direct results of actions difficult for the most enthusiastic advocate of press freedom to condone...
French Royalist exiles introduced seduction as a fine art, adultery as a vocation. Marie Leveau spied a rich field for blackmail...
...many enemies of the late notorious Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, owner-publisher of the Denver Post, said that he wore his yellow journalism with a difference-as protective coloration over an armor of blackmail. Few men have received such audibly frank obituaries. Last week Denverites were forcibly reminded of the "Old Dragon of Champa Street" when newsboys, billboards, burgees, street ballyhoos and all the paraphernalia of a high-pressure sales campaign launched The Great I Am, a thinly-veiled story of Publisher Bonfils' rackety career...
...CASE OF MARIE CORWIN-Gregory Dean-Covici, Friede ($2). A New York blackmail racket leads to an unsolved death, until a newly appointed commissioner makes an epilog solution...
When he gets out of jail, Eddie decides to try the badger game. He has Ruby invite a married admirer to the apartment, plans to break in on the couple in time to practice blackmail. Instead, overcome by jealousy, he whacks the caller on the jaw so hard he dies. Eddie runs away, Ruby goes to the reformatory. Eddie visits her, persuades an elderly colored clergyman calling on his wayward daughter to marry them in the institution's chapel. Their wedding, with policemen who have gotten wind of Eddie's presence pounding on the door, is the high...