Word: extortionate
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2) It should be made punishable to send through the mails letters threatening life or property?an act now punishable only if such threats are used to defraud or for extortion.
In the Chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey, the ancient ceremony of "redeeming the sword" was held by the Knights of the Grand Cross of The Most Honorable Order of The Bath, created in 1399 by Henry IV. The ceremony takes place on the installation of new Knights. Ten...
The Harvard Co-operative Society starts out with flying colors. It had been feared that Harvard Indifference, that ancient foe who has already in his collection such a choice assortment of corpses of college enterprises and societies, would lay away this one also in its capacious refrigerator. But from the...
Combined with this open recklessness, the internal economics of the banks now under the ban have been no less preposterous. For the sake of paying high rates on savings, commercial loans have been sought at exhorbitant rates indicative of the utmost insecurity. There seems little doubt that practices approximating extortion...
President Eliot speaking before the Seminary of Economics on "The Chinese Clerk, Salesman, Mechanic and Coolie" yesterday afternoon, described the character and present economic status of the masses of the Chinese race. As a result of the insecurity of property due to the extortion hitherto practiced on the rich by...