Word: extort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earl Brown, a porter in Grand Central, has written in Letters, biweekly magazine, how he once tried to extort "hush money" from Mr. Sachs on "Sugar Hill," the Vanderbilt Avenue taxicab entrance...
...prison were more downcast than any of their 6,297 neighbors. Under California law, prisoners given indeterminate life sentences may be paroled after serving ten years, provided no other charges are pending against them. The three had just been indicted by the Federal Government for using the mails to extort, were about to be prosecuted for robbing an oil man of $26. Their life terms in theory had thereby become life terms in fact. The trio: James Kirk, brain; Roy Williams and Larry Kerrigan, brawn, in the abduction of William F. Gettle of Arcadia (TIME...
...Banker Harold Irving: the late John's widow ex-Congresswoman Ruth. There were a huge Christmas tree and wreaths from the family's greenhouse adjoining their Long Island estate. Philadelphia police arrested a milkman named William Schultze who on threat of bodily harm had tried to extort $30,000 from Lessing Rosenwald (Sears Roebuck) to "go into the pasteurization business...
...sooner had he spoken than in Brooklyn occurred a good example of how kidnappers can be caught by prompt action. Three men had tried to extort $10,000 from Dr. Jacob Wachsman. Dr. Wachsman happens to be honorary physician of the New York Detectives' Association. He telephoned his detective friends and they promptly threw a network of espionage around him. A detective was his chauffeur. Detectives with fake ailments haunted his waiting room. When the extortionists finally named the location for the payment, the place bristled with sleuths selling oranges, taking stock in grocery stores, sweeping sidewalks in janitors...
...people are still unaware that in many cities hoodlums extort tribute from laundries. If the tribute is not paid, the laundryman may find his truck smashed, his customers' clothes ruined, his driver's pate cracked. Apparently this unwholesome state of affairs only recently came to the attention of oldtime Playwright Owen Davis. Playwright Davis, 57, does not write mediocre plays. He either writes very good ones or very bad ones. In the latter tradition are such shameless thrillers as Nellie, The Beautiful Cloak Model; Sal, the Circus Girl; Deadwood Dick...