Word: extortionately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The candidates who were the beneficiaries of this revolt of the voters against government which had ceased to be civilized and politics which was nothing more than rapine, grand larceny, degeneracy, sadism, privileged murder and systemized extortion, must be touched in the head if they think that the April election...
Foremost among the twelve loomed Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, still spruce at 67, who realized in 1917 the dream of Medieval Crusaders by capturing the Holy City of Jerusalem from Infidels who are still Infidels. Likewise among the twelve is Admiral Earl Jellicoe, trim and hearty at 68, who commanded...
Trembling witnesses went pale and stuttered with fright as they testified at Kovno last week against the dread onetime Chief of Lithuania's Political Police, Herr Jacob Badchis, now on trial for acts of gross brutality, extortion and malfeasance in office.
The fundamental political issue for the 1928 campaign is not prohibition or tariff or foreign relations, but it is legalized extortion and government-protected exploitation. It is a question of how much longer and to what extent the government is going to be controlled by big business at the expense...
The trial began with evidence from Salvatore Ferrarello, notorious chief. He denied that he was ever a member of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. "That is absurd," said he. "I have always been their enemy." He denied, as was to be expected, all the crimes with which he was accused. Extortion...