Word: extort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven days after month-old Peter Weinberger was stolen from his baby carriage in suburban Westbury, L.I. on July 4, FBI agents swiftly set up field headquarters and went to work.* Hunting down and jailing a few crackpots and hoaxers who brutally tried to extort money from the well-off Weinberger parents was the least of the police and FBI chores. The bigger job: a painstaking search of public records for handwriting to compare with that on two ransom notes...
India's eight million sadhus are mostly a wild and wacky bunch of fanatics who go about naked, claim divine powers, and live on alms. "Many of them simply exploit you and extort money from you," Prime Minister Nehru recently warned his people. "I want you not to have faith in such sadhus...
...planted under the hood and hooked up to the ignition system. Her husband. Harry, 67, told police he suspected that his ex-son-in-law, Harry Washburn, a down-and-out Houston contractor, was involved in the murder. Washburn, said Weaver, had been threatening the family and trying to extort money. But District Attorney Aubrey Stokes had other ideas. He told newsmen he thought Architect Weaver himself was the guilty man, expected to arrest him for the killing...
labor leaders. Three weeks ago a St. Louis jury found both men guilty of attempting to extort $1,030,000 from the Joppa plant contractors, the 13th and 14th to be convicted in the largest shakedown attempt since the Browne-Bioff syndicate operated in Hollywood...
...more than matched by his success at hell-raising crime stories. In more than 30 years as a newsman, he has scored notable beats on everything from an interview with a fugitive who had escaped from the Texas death house to an exclusive last year on an attempt to extort $250,000 from 24 of Dallas' leading Jewish families. Police Reporter McCormick has no intention of slowing down. Says he: "There ain't no such thing as the biggest moment in the newspaper business. The real big one is still around the corner...