Word: extort
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...welcomed him home from a European trip with a chartered boat and the Jersey City police band aboard.) But Joey got into trouble: in 1945 he and his pal Jim Bove, vice president of the Hod Carriers Union, got 7½-to-15-year prison stretches for conspiracy to extort $368,000 from contractors for New York City's $300 million Delaware aqueduct. When the iron doors of Sing Sing clanked behind him, the public assumed it had heard the last of Joey for a long time. Last week it turned out that Fay had merely changed his business...
...week it hung around his neck like a noose. On becoming Premier, he cracked down hard on the fanatic Moslem Brotherhood, whom he blamed for the murders of his two predecessors in office. He flung hundreds into jail, where they were tortured (some had their nails pulled out) to extort confessions. He even showed up at some interrogations himself, slapping suspects' faces, spitting at them...
...more than a year, the Chinese Communists have been using a shrewd technique to extort foreign exchange from the hard core of remaining companies, and provide jobs for some 5,000 Chinese employees. Shanghai's Ewo (translation: Happy Harmony) Breweries Ltd., for instance, once as famed in the Far East as Schlitz in Milwaukee, is an economic hostage. Ewo survived for a time under the Communists. But last year the Reds boosted the prices that Ewo had to pay for raw materials, then ruled that all its production must be sold through a state monopoly at a price...
Zoll was instrumental in getting Willard Goslin fired as Superintendent of Schools at Pasadena, California last year. Zoll was formerly National Commander of the "American Patriots, Inc." When New York's Station WMCA dropped Father Coughlin from its programs in 1938, Zoll was indicted for attempting to extort $7,500 from the station's president in return for calling off a picket line his group had thrown about the building. He was never convicted...
Viet Minh Communists, holed up in the bare limestone hills around the mouth of the Red River, looked down on the rice harvesters in the fertile, French-held delta, and decided they must fight for their food. The tactical plan: infiltrate guerrilla bands into the busy harvest land to extort grain from the peasants, carry it back into the hills at night. To cover their rice forays, they first launched a strong diversionary attack...