Word: blackmailers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Blackmailer Bioff: yes, he knew the defendants well. Seven of them were "The Syndicate" that had helped him filch at least $1 million in union dues, and blackmail the czars of Hollywood on a Hollywood scale. Staring coldly back at Willie Bioff's fat, pointing finger was an all-star police lineup: Gunman Paul ("The Waiter") de Lucia; pistol-packing ex-Capone Muscleman Phil D'Andrea; Beer-war Veteran Charles ("Cherry-Nose Joy") Gioe; Machine-gun Expert Louis ("The Man to See") Compagna; Frank ("The Immune") Maritote, alias Frankie Diamond; 14-time indicted Ralph Pierce; John Rosselli...
...judicious combination of blackmail, privilege and loot, Himmler has gathered a fortune. By 1940 he had invested no less than $2,200,000 in South American countries, the Syrian carpet trade, Finland's pulp industry, life-insurance policies...
...Italians. "The lesson which the Italians must take to heart is ... that a second-class Power cannot be built into a master race by rhetoric, grimaces, blackmail and castor oil, and that attempts to ride to conquest on the coattails of others will end in humiliation and disaster no matter which of the major contestants wins...
...dramatic crisis develops when another house guest, pro-Nazi Rumanian Count Teck de Brancovis (George Coulouris), discovers that Muller is about to slip back to Germany with money for the anti-Fascist cause, tries to blackmail him. Muller shoots the count, bids his wife & children farewell, leaves for Europe on what looks like a one-way trip...
...This is blackmail...