Word: extortionate
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Separated. Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr., 24, film actor; and Joan Crawford Fairbanks, 25 this week, film actress; the day after one Jorgen Dietz, Danish chemical engineer, sued Fairbanks for $50,000 for alienation of his divorced wife Solveig's "maliciously debauched" affections and for $20,000 for four hours...
In Evanston, Ill., when the last of five extortion letters directed Mrs. James A. Patten, 75, relict of Chicago's wheat tycoon, to walk at night down the street with $50,000, a policewoman set out from the Patten house at the specified time disguised as Mrs. Patten, carrying...
Col. Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf of the New Jersey State Police disclosed that the Bryant-Harvey case-simple, stupid, but none the less horrid-was one of three extortion attempts made since small Jon's birth last August. One letter was a warning or threat to "watch out." Another asked...
Han. Appointed Governor of Shantung Province in September 1930, lithe, redoubtable War Lord Han Fu-chu has slashed through the snarl of official extortion which had made Shantung the worst governed province in China. Today Shantung is called China's best-governed province. Han stands for no nonsense. In his...
Shortly after the 1929 stockmarket crash. Travelers received a similar threat, but the policy holder bearded the company in its Hartford home office. Officials pointed out that he was using extortion. He did not kill himself until two years later.