Word: pimping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago street urchin, ex-newsboy, ex-pimp, Willie Bioff did all right by himself in Hollywood. Last week a jury in New York Federal court decided he had done a lot of wrong as well...
Besides adding heavily to the cost of the defense program, A.F. of L. racketeering (according to Arnold's estimate) costs the U.S. a billion dollars a year. It lays its heavy, sweaty hand on everyone, from cabbage-eaters to movie kings. This week, as Willie Bioff, an ex-pimp, and George Browne, a vice president of A.F. of L., awaited trial in New York's Federal Court for allegedly extorting half a million dollars from four motion-picture companies, farmers coming into Manhattan were shelling out to A.F. of L. unioneers for the privilege of unloading perishable produce...
...stalked into his yard, stalked off again with two birds who looked pretty much like weasels in chicks' clothing. One was tough, slick George E. Browne, an A.F. of L. vice president and member of Mr. Green's executive council. The other was a onetime Chicago pimp-200-lb., frog-faced William ("Willie") Bioff. The charge against them: extortion...
...legendary birthday of the Antichrist.) Mature and restive at 15, he quit home. He worked, during the next few years, as a servant in Rome, a street singer, a hostler in Bologna, a moneylender's agent, tax collector, mule driver, hangman's assistant, miller, courier, pimp, mountebank, swindler, galley slave. At 24 he got into the service of Agostino Chigi, one of Rome's biggest business men. He had already published a book and was watching his chance. It came in the death of Hanno, fat Pope Leo X's pet elephant...