Word: extortionist
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...agreed on why they won the governorship: "Public disgust" over the scandals that had touched the New Jersey G.O.P. The last straw, they thought, was Republican Candidate Troast's admission that he had asked New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey Fay. Winner Meyner (rhymes with signer) disagreed heartily with the interpretation that got him headlines across the nation. He thought he had won on local issues, didn't think his victory was any reflection on the Eisenhower Administration...
...looked and sounded much like Frank Smith, Sergeant Friday's deadpan Dragnet partner. Troast suffered his roundest wallop early in October, when newspapers broke the story that Troast had asked New York's Tom Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey...
...Bleakley, a former state supreme court justice, onetime G.O.P. candidate for the governorship and currently the counsel for the racketeer-ridden Yonkers Raceway.* Republican State Senator William Condon of Yonkers had a ready explanation for his visit: he had escorted A.F.L. President George Meany on a trip to see Extortionist Fay, hadn't spoken a word during the visit. Although his name did not appear on the prison record, Meany acknowledged two trips to Sing Sing to see his old buddy...
...York's Democracy is a dirty political machine, famed young Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey last week went back to work. He produced a dramatic indictment charging that a leading Tammany officeholder, whose name is a household word throughout the State, was a bribe-taker and extortionist...
Building & Loan Secretary Embezzles Association's Funds to Pay Extortionist...