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The student, a Lowell House Junior, received through the mall an extortion note accompanied by a picture of a disrobed female reposing on a bench. "Remember the Rivera or was it Revere?" was the salutation of the letter. The text of the missive was brief--"Five thousand dollars . . . . OR ELSE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLACKMAIL JOKESTERS HOAX APTED AND LEAHY | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

Dried, rolled up in drums, sold to middlemen who are noted experts in Oriental extortion, all jute is drawn by bullocks or floated down India's muddy rivers to the colonial city of Calcutta. There it is either bought by British manufacturers or made up for export by pukka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Jute | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

In the fiction the elegiac note is absent, but the same restrained exoticism still appears. Each of the stories is good, but the only one which seems to emerge from the level of distinguished composition-class work is "Another Country" by John M. Cunningham. Setting the Sciltan Mafia on an...

Author: By Dana B. Durand, INSTRUCTOR IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE | Title: Awareness of Contrast Livens Poems, Fiction, Reviews in April Advocate | 4/13/1937 | See Source »

Against three operators of a restaurant "trade association" and four officers of waiters' and cafeteria workers' unions, Prosecutor Dewey's chunky right-hand man, William B. Herlands, argued a total of 182 charges of conspiracy, extortion and attempted extortion. By stink-bombings, strikes and threats of strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Major Crushing | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

But behind them was something that could not be reached with fists, something huge and vague and sinister. He dodged that fight, paid his forfeit. Jack Dempsey was ready to fight last week because a dauntless little man with a brown mustache had come forward to champion him and thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Fight Against Fear | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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