Word: extortionate
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> Enforcing systems of graft and extortion.
Uncle Sam visited Harvard yesterday in the form of an agent of the Federal Buromt of Investigation, who mysteriously appeared at the Lampoon's novel and left, apparently in search of an "extortion" letter writer.
The following week Chicago's late Banker James B. Forgan received a note demanding $100,000, on pain of being bombed. Police arrested Reinhold Faust and convicted him of attempted extortion.
¶In Brazil last week, wealthy Jews received extortion notes threatening physical violence, destruction of property unless they sent large "voluntary contributions" to Brazilian groups with allegedly Nazi affiliations. In Sao Paulo, police at once marched out to guard the premises of Jews who received threat-letters.
Governor George Howard Earle, who pictures himself as Pennsylvania's counterpart of Franklin Roosevelt, once hailed the latter's plan to New Dealize the U. S. Supreme Court as "the greatest advance for democracy in our lifetime." Last week Mr. Earle, embroiled in a fight to clear his...