Crossword-Solution: SANDBAGGERS 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

The last bulwark of the nation had fallen, the country lay helpless at the mercy of legalized sandbaggers.

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HIS PA GOES CALLING--HIS PA STARTS FORTH--A PICTURE OF THE OLD MAN “FULL “--POLITENESS AT A WINTER PICNIC--ASSAULTED BY SANDBAGGERS--RESOLVED TO DRINK NO MORE COFFEE--A GIRL FULL OF “AIG NOGG.” “Say, you are getting too alfired smart,” said the grocery man to the bad boy as he pushed him into a corner by the molasses barrel, and took him by the neck and choked him so his eyes stuck out.

HIS PA GOES CALLING—HIS PA STARTS FORTH—A PICTURE OF THE OLD MAN "FULL"—POLITENESS AT A WINTER PICNIC—ASSAULTED BY SANDBAGGERS—RESOLVED TO DRINK NO MORE COFFEE—A GIRL FULL OF "AIG NOGG" CHAPTER XXX.

Such extortions are variously called “hold-ups,” “strikes,” “sandbaggers,” “fetchers,” or “old friends,” “bell-ringers” and “regulators.” During a legislative investigation into insurance scandals in 1906 a president of one of the insurance companies declared that eighty-five per cent of all legislative bills were hold-up measures.