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...Government, which accused Willie and his friend George E. Browne of racketeering, a group of moviemen told of paying $887,700 to the two bosses of the A.F. of L. stagehands' union-under threat of strikes if they resisted the shakedown. Then Willie Bioff took the stand to give his own version of his success story. He blandly raised the total that moviemen had given him to more than $1,000,000. But he denied completely that it was extortion money. His story...
...included resumption of trade with Japan, freedom to use the Pacific Fleet in the Atlantic. To Japan they included resumption of trade with the U.S. (access to the oil and other raw materials that Japan badly wants) and an alliance against Germany's world aims, which are a threat to Japan...
...slow game that featured some strong defensive play by both sides, Kirkland nosed out an improved Eliot eleven, 7 to 0. With neither squad able to raise anything that resembled an offensive threat for 39 minutes of the game, Kirkland broke through in the last play of the first half when Chuck Griffith faded for back of his own line to heave it long pass that Willy Griffith nabbed in the end zone for the sole touchdown of the game...
With a chance to rise to third place in the league standings, the Deacons of Kirkland will be after their fourth win of the year against the Eliot Jumbos. George Waters will be the chief offensive threat against the Deacons. In the last Eliot game, Waters crossed the last white line twice and is all set to provide an encore this afternoon. The Deacons, however, should have more than enough to check the Jumbos...
...Post-Intelligencer (bought in 1921), spent money like water. Carefully laying his counterattack, General Blethen hired new feature writers, artists, fought Hearst dollar for dollar. Hearst lost. When John Boettiger, the President's son-in-law, became publisher of the P.I., Publisher Blethen ignored him as no threat...