Word: extortionate
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Last week, into Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, where Mr. Scalise slept, swooped agents of District Attorney Dewey, who carried him off to jail. The charge: extortion and conspiracy. Victims of his alleged extortions had been office-building cleaning companies, exterminators, hotel owners. On the threat of calling organization drives...
In St. Louis three weeks ago, a cartoonist and two editors of the Post-Dispatch were ordered to defend themselves against a citation for contempt of court because they criticized the dismissal of an extortion suit against a State Representative (TIME, March 25). Last week Circuit Judge Thomas J. Rowe...
In Chicago he hit out again: . . . shame of the New Deal . . . shameless corruption behind the smiling visage . . . crimes of intimidation and coercion . . . larceny, extortion, vicious practices . . . lowest form of political life . . . vested interest in human misery.
One day last fortnight marble-eyed, pudgy Circuit Judge Thomas J. Rowe handed down a decision dismissing extortion charges against Putty Nose Brady. (Big John had already been acquitted on one charge, has another hanging over him.) The Post-Dispatch editorialized scornfully: "Those hardy spectators, who gathered in the hope...
Nearly all the popular music heard over the air is controlled by American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a composer's union which collects royalties on every musical broadcast. Last spring Montana broadcasters got so fed up they had a law passed outlawing ASCAP's royalties...