Word: extortionate
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Jamie Brooke was a rich young Briton who bought a ship, stocked it with arms, and sailed for the East Indies as a privateer. One hundred years ago he set himself up as the white Raja of Sarawak, a wild, head-hunting State in northwest Borneo. A British court found...
Hardly had the Times published this story when labor got a warning. To A. F. of L.'s President William Green, Senator George Norris wrote: "I do not want Congress to have to pass legislation in regard to this which may be injurious to labor's cause, but...
>The Black Hand prospered by systematic extortion until Prohibition provided a new outlet for Sicilian genius.
THE STATION WAGON MURDER-Milton Propper- Harper ($2). Extortion is loose among Philadelphia's summering socialites and the body of Mrs. Eleanor Munson is found stabbed, in a station wagon. Trollop or no, Mrs. M. had a history that took Detective Tommy Rankin hotfoot to the scene of an...
In St. Louis, the acquittal of a Negro from extortion charges aroused such enthusiasm among 125 spectators that the judge sentenced them to remain quietly seated for one hour.