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...been drinking since 5 in the afternoon. Others in the bar included George E. Browne, president of the stage hands' union, 12th vice president of A. F. of L. Once charged with being the "front" for the Capone mob, Browne boasted among officials of his union Willie Bioff, convicted panderer, Nick Circella, Chicago mobster...
...Green started his week in Louisville, where the stagehands (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes and Moving Picture Machine Operators) had convened. Among its bigwigs are, or were: Nick Dean (known to Chicago police as Nick Circella), Willie Bioff. Convicted once of assault with intent to murder, Nick has been arrested for robbery, stealing automobiles. After Columnist Westbrook Pegler's recent acrimonious cam paign, Willie Bioff was cast into jail to serve out an old sentence for pandering...
...does hereby reaffirm its belief in the honesty and integrity of Brother William Bioff. . . ." Dusting out of Louisville, Mr. Green rushed to New York City to beg the gar ment makers (International Ladies' Garment Workers Union) to come back into the A. F. of L. fold. President Dubinsky's terms for rejoining: i) elimination of the penny-a-month tax which...
...Building Service Employees' International Union (with a membership of some 70,000 charwomen, chambermaids, elevator operators, window washers), a $25,000-a-year salary, an unlimited expense account. A little-known figure he might have remained, had not crusty, crusading Columnist Westbrook Pegler (who last fortnight got William Bioff, boss of A. F. of L. studio labor in Hollywood, sent to jail in Illinois to serve out an 18-year-old sentence for pandering) grown curious about Mr. Scalise...
After exhausting the delays of jurisprudence, chubby William ("Sweet Willie") Bioff, boss of A. F. of L. labor in Hollywood studios and a potent figure in the U. S. entertainment industry, surrendered to Chicago police to serve out his six-month jail sentence imposed 18 years ago for pandering...