Word: extortionate
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At Central Junior High (64% Negro), teachers patrol the lavatories during class breaks to prevent gang attacks, often frisk the pupils for switchblades and razors. Favorite weapon: a beer-can opener with honed edges. One boy at Central Junior was transferred to another school, his teacher reported, "because the extortion...
Al, who was born in Tropea, Italy (real name: Umberto Anastasio), started his career almost as soon as he jumped ship in New York in 1917 to become a dock-walloper on the Brooklyn piers. In 1921 and 1922 he spent 18 months in the death house at Sing Sing...
Died. William C. De Koning Sr., 59, shrewd, tough ("I ain't afraid of no one") Long Island labor hustler and strong-arm boy, convicted of extortion in 1954 after a four-year crusade by Long Island's Newsday (for which it won the Pulitzer Prize); of chronic...
When he showed his baggy-eyed cine-mobster's face on TV (TIME, Aug. 19) as a 140-time Fifth Amendment pleader before the Senate labor rackets investigating committee, arrogant, carefully tailored Johnny Dio, 43, seemed to have made crime pay pretty well: society had not managed to pin...
Then, expressionlessly, he listened as the committee played recordings of two wire-tapped phone conversations made in 1955, after Dio supposedly had left the labor movement. One tap convinced listeners that Dio was still playing a heavy hand in extortion ("I'm telling him to put the pickets back...