Word: l
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FRANK L. MOORMAN...
...when George E. Browne began to rise in the world, Al Capone had been two years in prison and uncaught gangsters were turning from liquor to labor rackets. Mild, mannerly Mr. Browne (no gangster) was a labor careerist who had just been elected president of A. F. of L.'s union for theatre no-collar-men: the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes. His assistant and bodyguard was one William Bioff, whose record in Chicago included numerous arrests, one conviction for pandering, two efforts to muscle in on Chicago unions, several published references to him as a minor South...
Stagehand Browne was there as a vice president and executive councilman of A. F. of L., sitting with his fellow councilmen and president, William Green, at their summer meeting to review Federation affairs, deal with such inter-union disputes as this. "It is all a headache," said Mr. Green, who enjoyed elbow-rubbing with stars but had a cold and much confusion in the head...
...subsidiary of his union, with authority to snatch cinemactors from Ralph Morgan's Screen Actors Guild, singers from Mr. Tibbett's American Guild of Musical Artists, stage actors from potent Actors' Equity Association, any & all performers from all other 4-A affiliates. The A. F. of L. constitution expressly forbids just such raiding of one Federation international by another, but has never prevented...
...Glenn L. Martin Co., $15,815,000, to North American Aviation Inc. $11,771,000, for two-engined, medium bombers...