Word: extortionate
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The labor bosses listened noncommittally to Bowles. They knew that they could never hold their men if prices broke through. They also knew that there was many a political crevasse between a labor pledge and a Congressional fulfillment. Besides, their minds were occupied with an immediate worry. The Hobbs anti...
At Washington, Representative O'Toole announced that he has instructed his lawyers in New York to bring a $100,000 criminal libel suit against Jacobs for "accusing me of extortion."
"We call attention to a significant omission from Mr. Murray's letter. He does not defend the practices which this bill would prohibit. He does not assert that it is right that unions should practice robbery or extortion by violence in commerce. He does not argue that it is...
Ed Crump, foxy-grandpa boss of Memphis (TIME, May 27), said he had received an extortion note, but declared that he was positively not disconcerted. The threatening note ran; "Pay $50,000 or we will kill you or your wife at a certain date. . . . You will be contacted as to...
Cried Hoffa: "The strike is on." At week's end, teamsters' pickets ringed the loading docks at the wholesale houses. But Hoffa's organizers now faced the sweaty business of riding after individual, dodging dogies. Republican Mayor Edward J. Jeffries ignored the prosecutor and asked that a...