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The Indians and the poor appealed to the church, and Mexico's archbishop put the extortioner under a ban of excommunication.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an "emergency" broadcast, Wagner charged that "one of the most important men in the U.S." had attempted to spring Joey Fay, a notorious labor extortioner, from Sing Sing Prison.

From Time Magazine Archive

The people manifested their contempt of so despicable an extortioner and flatterer of royalty, not only by words, but by caricatures.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Brantz Mayer

We know of none half so likely to succeed, as the country extortioner and the country usurer!

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

The money had to be found, and the manor was sold to Sir Robert Clayton, Whig, Lord Mayor, plutocrat, and, according to Dryden, extortioner.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson




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