Word: extortionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For 65 years Philadelphia has suffered its Republican city government as it has the water it drank. Both gave off a faint but unpleasant smell, but a true Philadelphian got used to both. This year, after the exposure of graft, extortion and embezzlement in nearly every city office, the smell...
Last May 17,000 police made an exhaustive beat of Giuliano's mountain hideout. He slipped through the net (rumor said by joining a bicycle race that was passing through the area) and took a lonesome vacation in the mountain villages on the lower slopes, near Palermo. Police had...
When it protested the 1939 acquittal (on extortion charges) of one "Putty Nose" Brady as a "burlesque of justice," the P-was fined $2,000 for contempt of court; Editor Coghlan was sentenced to 20 days in jail and a $200 fine for okaying the editorial. Readers applauded his and...
The head of the N.C.A.E., a group formed last year, is Allen Zoll. His old organization, American Patriots, Inc., was branded as "subversive" in December, 1947, by Attorney General Tom Clark. When Zoll applied for Civilian Military Training during the war, Army Intelligence refused his application. In 1939 Zoll was...
Tough little Willie Bioff, big-shot labor racketeer, was testifying. "We had about 20 percent of Hollywood when we got in trouble. If we hadn't got loused up we'd of had 50 percent. I had Hollywood dancin' to my tune." Willie's compelling tune...