Word: extort
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Individual beatings are applied, in the main, to extort from the victim his land tax. Mr. Brailsford traveled through district after district where the peasants had taken and kept this vow: "We will pay no taxes until Gandhi is released from jail...
...Bank for International Settlements, not guaranteed by the Allied Powers, but secured by the credit of the German Government and, if Germany chooses to default, resting ultimately for security upon a decision by Britain, France, Belgium, Italy and Japan as to whether or not they want to extort payment from Germany by force of arms...
Meanwhile in Los Angeles was occurring the last act of a newspaper racket story which made the petty taxing of Chicago brothel keepers pale into insignificance. Morris Lavine, ace reporter of the Los Angeles Examiner, was convicted of attempting to extort $75,000 in the course of a second expose of the Julian Petroleum Corp. scandal...
...morning before the banquet Mr. Whalen went to Police Headquarters as usual to attend the daily "lineup" of suspected criminals before the detective force. Two police detectives, Frederick Opperman, 25, and John Foran, 34, reluctantly mounted the little stage. The charge against them was that they had tried to extort $25 from the proprietor of a small speakeasy on Staten Island...
...Among them: that he called Vestryman Charles A. Brown "perjurer, liar, moral pervert, trickster;" that he attempted to extort $10,000 from Bishop Mackay-Smith under threat of publishing some of the Bishop's letters to him; that he committed assault and battery on one Anna Phillips; that he charged Parishioner Edward Matlack with being a thief...