Word: blackmailers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Juvenile thriller addicts, young or old, have a new radio hero. Chick Carter, the boy detective, is making life pretty difficult for The Rattler, a man with a foreign accent who through sabotage, blackmail, robbery and murder is trying to wreck the vital war industries of Midvale. Can Chick and his companions help Major Pennington protect his new war invention from The Rattler? (Answers given Mondays through Fridays, 5:30 to 5:45 p.m. E.W.T. over WOR-Mutual...
...Colonel Charles B. Marduc of the advertising agency of Marduc, Syco & Sagg, who will not handle any patent medicine, liquor or contraceptive ads, caring for them "through a separate firm with which his name wasn't even connected." The Colonel's ambitious daughter would not hesitate to blackmail, double-cross or kidnap him. Cracks he to her: "You must have been bumming around with some new lover-maybe your husband...
...justice. To the British, Gandhi was guilty of calling for a civil-disobedience campaign last August which set off a mass outburst. Lord Linlithgow held Gandhi legally responsible for the deaths that had occurred, the damage done. In the Viceroy's words, Gandhi's fast was "political blackmail"; as such it was Gandhi's "sole responsibility." This was the official British view. Any weakening of this position, setting Gandhi free-and thus permitting him to break his fast -would be an admission that the British were wrong. If the British stuck to their point (and Gandhi died...
...hours to parley with a native chief. Then she suddenly goes back to Libreville, begging Timar to wait patiently till she returns. But the lonely Timar has learned that Adèle herself killed the native waiter, who had seen her leaving Timar's bedroom and threatened blackmail. He has also found that her parleys with the native chief were to bribe him to fix the murder on an innocent tribesman. She has gone to Libreville to spend the night with the Governor and put him in a good mood for the trial. Deftly, coolly, Author Simenon makes...
...SUNDAY PIGEON MURDERS -Craig Rice-Simon & Schuster ($2). Two impecunious sidewalk photographers, one with brains the other with brawn, indulge in a little mild kidnapping and well-intentioned blackmail with gory results. Exciting scenes, a bountiful supply of able amateur detecting, moments of fantasy, humor and sentiment place this story far above the average...