Word: extortionate
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Although it is published in Garden City, Long Island, a quiet suburb 20 miles from the bustle of Manhattan, Alicia Patterson's tabloid Newsday (circ. 180,964) has never been content to lead the quiet life of a suburbanite. Almost two months ago, when Yonkers Raceway's Labor...
The story didn't stop with De Koning. Newsday told how the Roosevelt owners, led by Racketeer Lucky Luciano's onetime lawyer, George Morton Levy, got control of the Yonkers track. In a byline copyright interview with Hathway, Lawyer Levy admitted his group had lobbied a law through...
There are reasons for this mania to escape from an institution which is the pride and joy of other U.S. cities and towns. While school-age hoodlums are the small minority of students in New York, their precocious propensity for vandalism, gang "rumbles." narcotics, sex orgies and extortion make them...
Joe Ryan's gangster-ridden International Longshoremen's Association has long been notorious for dock scandals: graft, extortion, kickbacks, loan-sharking, gambling, strong-arming, pilferage, gang warfare, wildcat strikes. Mild A.F.L. President William Green never did anything about it, but soon after George Meany succeeded Green last December...
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...