Word: extortionate
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Tough little Willie Bioff, big-shot labor racketeer, was testifying. "We had about 20 percent of Hollywood when we got in trouble. If we hadn't got loused up we'd of had 50 percent. I had Hollywood dancin' to my tune." Willie's compelling tune...
Public Record. As a prosecutor, he piled up an imposing list of convictions: Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler (income tax evasion); "Lucky" Luciano (prostitution); Jimmy ("The Honest Blacksmith") Hines (Tammany graft); ex-Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney (grand larceny). Along with the bigwigs, he put away scores of smaller fry in...
Feet of Clay. In Albuquerque, police arrested the Better Business Bureau's manager Don Dreessen, charged him with extortion.
Economic Pincers. Russian trade treaties, like reparations, were instruments of extortion, and, in method, straight out of the Nazi mold, with which Molotov had more than a newspaper reader's acquaintance during the piping days of German-Russian war collaboration, 1939-41 (see cut). But the Soviet Union had...
This was just what studios feared. Rough and tough, Sorrell is little liked by rival studio labor leaders. Neither do they like what they think are his politics. He is now being tried before a union tribunal on charges of Communism. Nevertheless, his quickie victory had greatly increased his prestige...