Word: extortionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Victim (Allied; Pathé-America), a British picture that the Johnston office has found "thematically objectionable," elaborates a startling statistic: in nine out of ten cases of blackmail in Britain, the victim is a homosexual. Why? The answer, as provided by a speech in the script: "A law which sends...
Throughout the three-day trial, Gallo refused to say a word in his defense, although he did allow himself a Cagney-like snarl at a haggle of assistant district attorneys. "Ya dirty rats!" he observed. The jury quickly found Gallo guilty of attempted extortion and conspiracy. The finding, his first...
Robert Wagner, Democrat-Liberal, was elected mayor in 1953 and re-elected in 1957, both times under the sponsorship of the Democratic organization bosses he is now attacking. His first term was plodding; his second has been studded with proliferating scandals: inadequate or nonexistent school maintenance, graft in the real...
Fish-eyed Frankie Carbo, 56, boxing's undercover czar, took one on the chin in Los Angeles last week. A federal jury convicted the Murder, Inc. graduate of extortion, conspiring to grab a piece of ex-Welterweight Champion Don Jordan's purses and threatening his manager and a...
But the U.S. attempt to topple Castro's Communism in Cuba had been bungled-and last week, by urging U.S. citizens to accede to a Castro extortion demand, the President did not improve matters. The U.S. South was again aflame on the issue of integration-and, however skillfully handled...