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...remodeled dwelling of many apartments) and checking up on the names in the mail boxes. There he found my own card in one box, and in another box the card of S. S. Van Dine. He twitted me gloatingly with the discovery, and proceeded to levy the most outrageous blackmail-which I paid. (I have since removed Mr. Van Dine's card from the mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...understand . . . that the Governor [Alfred E. Smith] in casting those votes against those reform bills [touching gambling and the facilities for prostitution] might honestly have felt that the bills were unconstitutional or were not enforceable or infringed on personal liberty or encouraged police blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: White-Washed | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

INTERFERENCE?In which a girl is given prussic acid as an antidote for blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

INTERFERENCE?In which a girl is given prussic acid as an antidote for blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 14, 1927 | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...boudoirs, for scandal and gossip of the most personal sort. Their gleanings they must then dress with language and emphases known only to habitues of a raucous young country's fleshpots. The stories were either published? blasting reputations?or brandished with a menace that brought forth, if not actual blackmail, the most servile acquiescence in the publishers' larger schemes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panders | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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