Word: extortionate
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On trial in Manhattan went Brooklyn Lawyer A. Harry Ross and Private Detective Max D. Krone, charged with extorting $5,000 from President Samuel C. Stampleman of Gillette Safety Razor Co. Ruefully President Stampleman told of how he had been introduced to brunette Helen Conboy in 1933, had taken her...
Arraigned on indictments charging extortion, Detective Krone was jailed when he could not raise $50,000 bail. Lawyer Ross, whose brother turned out to be a Brooklyn Democratic district leader, was let out on $5,000 bail. Miss Pavlick, newlywed and sobbing, was exonerated after the police satisfied themselves that...
Mother Bannister enlivened her trial, the first for kidnapping in New Brunswick, by howling so industriously in her wooden cage that the lawyers had to shout back & forth. The jury acquitted Mrs. Bannister of kidnapping, found her guilty of extortion and of "harboring" Betty Ann, a crime involving a maximum...
Since Congress has recently passed several new crime laws such as the Extortion Statute, the Fugitive Law, the Stolen Property Law and the Crime Bill Series, it will put itself in a very embarrassing situation if it refuses to grant the money to finance the enforcement of these bills. It...
The Unguarded Hour (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an elaborate demonstration of the not particularly startling hypothesis that any man's life contains moments when his whereabouts, if later questioned, would be hard to prove. Lady Dearden (Loretta Young) agrees to pay a blackmailer ?2,000 for letters written by...