Word: extortionate
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¶ Passed a bill by Missouri's Cochran to punish kidnappers and blackmailers who use the mails for extortion with a $5,000 fine, 20 years imprisonment; sent it to the Senate.
Prayers & Sympathy. In Pasadena, Calif. Albert Einstein said he thought kidnapping showed a lack of "social sanity." Law-abiding Londoners, aghast at a crime directed against "the American approximation of the Prince of Wales," could not understand why a Prince of Wales would leave his much-publicized infant unguarded. President...
Since it became known that 282 abductions were recorded in police records in the last three years, bills by Senator Roscoe Conkling Patterson and Representative John Joseph Cochran of Missouri to make kidnapping across a State line a Federal offense punishable by death have been pushed in Congress. Last week...
If heroism, mercy and ingenuity guided the Good People, greed, extortion and ingenuity guided the Bad People. Thus $3 is a huge sum, and always has been, to some of Chapei's desperate poor, yet $3 was extorted again and again by Chinese sampanmen to ferry a refugee across the...
The late famed William Travers Jerome, crusading district attorney of Manhattan, tried his hardest to prove that the notorious colonel's faith in human nature was limited to his creditors; in short, that he was an extortionist. But victims of extortion are rarely willing to testify that they bought silence...