Word: extortionate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war he began working among the survivors of Naziism. When Bavaria, under U.S. pressure, passed a law to indemnify these survivors, Auerbach was appointed to distribute the funds. All went well until the Germans became suspicious of how Auerbach was spending the money. Methodically, they went to work...
Pedro took to his heels and a fortnight later, disguised in women's clothes, was picked up in the captain's cabin of a ship outward-bound for Borneo. He was just fitting a woman's wig to his head when two of Magsaysay's men...
¶ For local reporting, San Francisco Chronicle's George de Carvalho, who was born in Hong Kong and knows San Francisco's Chinatown intimately. He was the first to expose the Chinese Communist extortion racket (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). After Carvalho reported that Chinese-Americans were being...
* Established by Pulitzer's will in 1917 and awarded by Columbia University's trustees on the recommendation of advisory committees under the School of Journalism. The present Joseph Pulitzer, a member of Columbia's committee, did not vote on this particular award. † He picked the name...
Many parents retreat from the living room when the children's TV shows come on. A group of-dedicated San Francisco mothers did just the reverse: they cooked their family suppers early, then sat down for four uninterrupted hours of watching TV moppet shows. In Washington last week, the...