Word: extortionate
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Nick Schenck kept his mouth shut for six years about this alleged extortion, cheating the Government and the stockholders by deliberately falsifying the record. . . . The film companies paid money to these men, yes. But it was bribery and not extortion."
Open Hands, Cold Feet. Said Willie Bioff to the Court: Back in 1934 he was just a smalltime operator in Chicago labor circles, working with his pal, George E. Browne, ex-president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes. (Both are now serving time for extortion.) "The Syndicate" took...
Extortion or Bribery? As Willie's yarns went on, blackening reputations indiscriminately, the defense began to switch the blame. Shrewd James D. C. Murray, chief counsel for "The Syndicate," said: "These defendants are no angels ... a man would be a jackass to say so. However, I intend to prove...
Year ago, the Supreme Court had refused to convict members of the Teamsters Union who stopped out-of-state trucks entering New York City and. compelled the truckers to hire a New York union driver or pay his fee. Sam Hobbs had promptly drawn a bill broadening the legal definitions...
Last week Sam Hobbs again persuaded the Judiciary Committee to report out his bill, this time without hearings; labor demanded it be sent back to committee for "better advised action." Said Hobbs: "Crime is crime, no matter who commits it; robbery is robbery and extortion is extortion, whether the perpetrator...