Word: extort
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...Banker Harold Irving: the late John's widow ex-Congresswoman Ruth. There were a huge Christmas tree and wreaths from the family's greenhouse adjoining their Long Island estate. Philadelphia police arrested a milkman named William Schultze who on threat of bodily harm had tried to extort $30,000 from Lessing Rosenwald (Sears Roebuck) to "go into the pasteurization business...
...sooner had he spoken than in Brooklyn occurred a good example of how kidnappers can be caught by prompt action. Three men had tried to extort $10,000 from Dr. Jacob Wachsman. Dr. Wachsman happens to be honorary physician of the New York Detectives' Association. He telephoned his detective friends and they promptly threw a network of espionage around him. A detective was his chauffeur. Detectives with fake ailments haunted his waiting room. When the extortionists finally named the location for the payment, the place bristled with sleuths selling oranges, taking stock in grocery stores, sweeping sidewalks in janitors...
...people are still unaware that in many cities hoodlums extort tribute from laundries. If the tribute is not paid, the laundryman may find his truck smashed, his customers' clothes ruined, his driver's pate cracked. Apparently this unwholesome state of affairs only recently came to the attention of oldtime Playwright Owen Davis. Playwright Davis, 57, does not write mediocre plays. He either writes very good ones or very bad ones. In the latter tradition are such shameless thrillers as Nellie, The Beautiful Cloak Model; Sal, the Circus Girl; Deadwood Dick...
...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...