Word: extortionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued. Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty; by James Joseph Tunney; at Bridgeport, Conn. The charge: Extortion, defamation of character.
Statistical beyond all others was the annual report of Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown. His most important legislative recommendation sought punishment for blackmailers using the mails as a means of attempted extortion.
Last fortnight bleachers had to be erected in a New York courtroom to accommodate 86 defendants in a poultry-selling racket (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week the New York authorities started action against another, similar game, common to all big cities-"coöperative" selling of loose (unbottled) milk. The...
Martin O'Leary, Ernest Ross, David Miller, Fred Fisher, wanted for the murder of Policeman Ray Martin, a decoy in the Louis Blumenthal kidnaping and extortion plot.
1) The more domestic products are protected, the higher is the cost of living. Domestic monopoly spells domestic extortion.