Word: extortionate
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Sued. Dudley Field Malone, merry international divorce lawyer; by Charlotte Poillon; for $5,000. Charge: failure to reward her for disclosing an extortion plot. Charlotte Poillon and her sister, Katherine, have graced many a courtroom since 1900, when they thrashed a masher in Central Park.
On the Atlantic bound for Basle and then Berlin* was Board Chairman Albert Henry Wiggin of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, hurrying to defend the interests of U. S. holders of German short-term credits against the demand of France that Reparations be given priority (TIME, Dec. 7). To...
Lambasting France from his Kaiserhof armchair last week, fiery Fascist Hitler boomed: "As a party we emphatically reject the system of political extortion indulged in by a nation saturated with arms and gold! . . . We are not Carthage nor is France Rome, and it should be recalled that Rome subdued Carthage...
The body of a good-looking red-headed woman was found sprawled in a clump of bushes by the side of Mosholu Avenue in New York's Van Cortlandt Park, early one morning last week. It was identified as Benita Franklin Bischoff, alias Vivian Gordon, a racketeering lady of...
Three weeks before her death Mrs. Bischoff had written Counsel Isidor Jacob Kresel-who was relieved as prosecutor for the Seabury investigation when indicted in the Bank of U. S. failure proceedings (TIME, Feb. 2)-that she had "some information in connection with a 'frameup' by a police...