Word: extortioners
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> Eased out Vice President George E. Browne, on trial in New York for extortion; picked Edward Flore, chief of the waiters and bartenders, to fill his shoes; re-elected the other twelve vice presidents.
> Those designed to enforce systems of graft and extortion;
From William Green, who likes to cluck about the purity of the chicks in his A.F. of L. brood, came nary a cluck last week. The Federal Government had stalked into his yard, stalked off again with two birds who looked pretty much like weasels in chicks' clothing. One...
stage employes' and projectionists' union, and Bioff, who is his Hollywood ambassador, had chiseled $550,000 from Hollywood film companies by threatening to stir up strikes among the 35,000 union members in the industry. Named as victims of the alleged extortion: Twentieth Century-Fox, Loew's...
The hand of the law on his neck was no new experience for Willie Bioff, who only recently got out of the clink for his 20-year-old pandering conviction, and was already under another indictment for trying to evade payment of $85,000 in income taxes. Mr. Bioff wailed...