Word: blackmailers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conant gags on the phrase "higher education," with its undemocratic implication that anybody who doesn't go to a university or four-year college is "forever on a lower plane." To rescue the colleges and universities from the student who enrolls only because of this social blackmail, Conant favors local two-year colleges, such as some states-notably California-have already set up. He would authorize them to grant a new degree of B.G.S. (Bachelor of General Studies)-"not a B.A.," says Conant, "but something that sounds just as near like it as you can come." Then, Conant thinks...
...young Edward's sake, Arnold Holt commits arson, practices blackmail, ditches his mistress, makes a wreck of his wife, blarneys the girl Edward has got with child. Edward himself, not much good to begin with and monstrously spoiled, turns into a wastrel who is killed...
...This is not an ordinary act of suicide." Pearson said Porter had told him that certain people had been trying to force him to return to Scotland (he was a British subject), because "apparently some people believed he knew too much." Porter had told some friends of attempts to blackmail him, and he was sure he was being shadowed. Other friends of Porter said he had booked passage on the liner Media, but had canceled it on sailing day, Aug. 6. They said he would have been a star witness in Countess Gizycka's suit to break the will...
Above all, the Russians had so far failed in their chief objective-which was simply to blackmail the West into "saving" Berlin by tossing Western Germany to the wolves. Western Germany, whose industrial potential was the most important bulwark standing between Europe and Communism, was going strong...
...forever sterile." Artie, who is quoted by Kathleen's lawyer as stating that "any woman who has enough money and still expects her husband to support her is nothing but a high-class prostitute," also went into the financial side of his marriage: "She is trying to blackmail me. I know the defendant to be a money-mad extortioner." And anyway, he added, neither of their Mexican divorces was legal, and so he figures that he is still the lawful wedded husband...