Word: extort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gandhi has charged British employers with heartless, indifferent exploitation of their Indian employes. The Royal Commission stigmatized last week the "vicious system" whereby British employers do not hire & fire their Indian help themselves, but leave this to Indian foremen who extort the last anna of tribute from wretches who pay to get a job, pay to keep it. An entire chapter is devoted by the Royal Commission to abuses and extortions practiced upon simple Indian peasants who come to town seeking factory jobs...
There is a group of young men operating about New York who masquerade as friends of college students, and try to extort money and assistance from families of college students...
Individual beatings are applied, in the main, to extort from the victim his land tax. Mr. Brailsford traveled through district after district where the peasants had taken and kept this vow: "We will pay no taxes until Gandhi is released from jail...
...Bank for International Settlements, not guaranteed by the Allied Powers, but secured by the credit of the German Government and, if Germany chooses to default, resting ultimately for security upon a decision by Britain, France, Belgium, Italy and Japan as to whether or not they want to extort payment from Germany by force of arms...
Meanwhile in Los Angeles was occurring the last act of a newspaper racket story which made the petty taxing of Chicago brothel keepers pale into insignificance. Morris Lavine, ace reporter of the Los Angeles Examiner, was convicted of attempting to extort $75,000 in the course of a second expose of the Julian Petroleum Corp. scandal...