Word: extortionate
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Statistical beyond all others was the annual report of Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown. His most important legislative recommendation sought punishment for blackmailers using the mails as a means of attempted extortion.
Last fortnight bleachers had to be erected in a New York courtroom to accommodate 86 defendants in a poultry-selling racket (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week the New York authorities started action against another, similar game, common to all big cities-"coöperative" selling of loose (unbottled) milk. The...
Martin O'Leary, Ernest Ross, David Miller, Fred Fisher, wanted for the murder of Policeman Ray Martin, a decoy in the Louis Blumenthal kidnaping and extortion plot.
1) The more domestic products are protected, the higher is the cost of living. Domestic monopoly spells domestic extortion.
Last week, Down-Shaker Harris was arrested for impersonating an officer and for extortion. What exposed him was irate proprietors telephoning Prohibition headquarters to complain that they had already paid their protection fees and did not want to be further imposed upon.