Word: moviemen
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Government, which accused Willie and his friend George E. Browne of racketeering, a group of moviemen told of paying $887,700 to the two bosses of the A.F. of L. stagehands' union-under threat of strikes if they resisted the shakedown. Then Willie Bioff took the stand to give his own version of his success story. He blandly raised the total that moviemen had given him to more than $1,000,000. But he denied completely that it was extortion money. His story...