Word: extort
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...mysterious telephone calls, despite the appearance of several of Jean De Koven's traveler's checks, obviously forged, the French police stubbornly refused to believe that a kidnapping could occur in present-day France. Petit Parisien headlined its story: "American Dancer Runs Away and Tries to Extort Money from Aunt." French police were not entirely remiss, however. The mysterious Bobby was suspected of being an habitue of the Pavilion Bleu at St. Cloud. Night & day detectives watched the Pavilion Bleu, abandoned their vigil only when wreckers arrived and tore it down...
...Victor McLaglen had been kidnapped at the point of a gun in front of a filling station. The sheriff's office presently set the police right: the "kidnappers"' were deputy sheriffs, their victim Victor's brother Capt, Sidney Leopold McLaglen, 48, accused of having attempted to extort $20,000 from Millionaire-Sportsman-Photographer Phillip Mattiessen Chancellor...
...Next," the rest of the program at the State only, is a rather unconvincing melodrama about racketeers, who get control of a device for interfering with radio programs and proceed to extort money from broadcasting companies. Lloyd Nolm, who plays the company engineer, is supposed to be the here, but has antagonized the audience so that he is roundly hissed when his rescuers free him. Ann Sothern is his lady love, and Douglas Dumbrille, who has been a villain for so long that he must have a criminal mind by now, is the racketeer...
...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...