Word: extortionate
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Until 1941 Pampero's normal budget included $11,000 a month from the German Embassy; since early in that year Nazi businessmen have been encouraged by subsidies to give the paper plenty of advertising. With these subsidies Pampero was able to get its circulation up as high as 140...
Cinemogul Joseph M. Schenck was bundled off to prison to serve a year and a day for perjury instead of three years for income-tax evasion. The three-year sentence given him a year ago was suspended as a reward for his testimony help in sending Laboracketeers Willie Bioff and...
The Itching Parrot's further pages include a cruelly realistic marriage, a gruesome, slapstick try at corpse robbing, harsh satire on civil and priestly extortion, some Swiftian dialogues with a Chinaman on law, religion, medicine, the rich. At length he meets repentance head-on in the dead person of...
For the Government, which accused Willie and his friend George E. Browne of racketeering, a group of moviemen told of paying $887,700 to the two bosses of the A.F. of L. stagehands' union-under threat of strikes if they resisted the shakedown. Then Willie Bioff took the stand...
The jury took just under two hours to find Bioff and Browne (who did not testify at all) guilty of all the Government charges-racketeering, extortion, conspiracy. Possible maximum sentence on each count: ten years, $10,000 fine.