Word: binion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vegas, Benny Binion had an airtight alibi...
Dogs & Peacocks. Noble's trials began in 1945; until then, he kicked back 25% of the profits of his crap games for "protection" by Benny Binion, kingpin of Dallas gambling during the war years. When Binion raised the ante to 40%, Noble rebelled. Two "enforcers" went after him in a wild night automobile chase and shot him in the back. About that time, Binion moved to Las Vegas, and Noble retired from gambling to become a rancher and a trader in surplus airplane engines. The feud between them...