Word: extort
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Candles on the Table. Everett submitted an incredible report (first to the U.S. Supreme Court, then to the U.S. Army), which read like a record of Nazi atrocities. He charged that, to extort confessions, U.S. prosecution teams "had kept the German defendants in dark, solitary confinement at near starvation rations up to six months; had applied various forms of torture, including the driving of burning matches under the prisoners' fingernails; had administered beatings which resulted in broken jaws and arms and permanently injured testicles...
...grown version of the Soviet MVD snatched some 5,000 persons from offices, homes and streets. They were not all Peasant Party members. But they were mostly Maniu followers. In the prison basement of the white marble ministry they got ari MVD-style* rubber hosing with one purpose: to extort confessions exposing a National Peasant Party plot against Kremlin Puppet Petru Groza and the Soviet Union...
...appealing to the princes and nobles, he wrote: "We owe this revolt to none other on earth than to you . . . who are hardened to the present day and do not cease to rage against the Holy Gospel, and in your secular government do nothing else than tax and extort . . . until the poor and common man can no longer endure it. The sword is hanging over your heads, and yet you think that your seat in the saddle is secured. Such obdurate foolhardiness will cost you your neck. You must change and obey the Word...
Last week. Mayor Knabb was in the hottest water ever, but still fighting happily. Indictments brought by Prosecutor Purves 1) charged him with accepting a bribe from a slot-machine operator, 2) accused him and the city garbage superintendent of trying to extort $5,000 from Bremerton's No. 1 Citizen, Edward Bremer, in blackmail over a girl. Released on $5,000 bail, Mayor Knabb was promptly greeted by a Better Bremerton League headed by the town's principal ministers, asked to "observe the moral laws as well as the civil laws." Babbled Jesse Knabb: "Aw, those pitiful...
...Union. This seems to have left the Soviet press, Tass and Old Bolshevik Litvinoff in a predicament. Thereupon, with all the authority of the Soviet Foreign Office, the Butenko in Rome was branded an "impostor." although Commissar Litvinoff observed darkly that "torture" might have been applied in Italy to extort statements hostile to Stalin from a Russian of some sort. In Soviet papers it was said that Rome papers were printing pictures of "Butenko" which did not resemble him in the least and Soviet papers printed his true picture taken in Moscow. Only last week was it possible to place...