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white-slaving

American  
[hwahyt-sley-ving, wahyt-] / ˈʰwaɪtˈsleɪ vɪŋ, ˈwaɪt- /

noun

  1. traffic in white slaves.

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Nine months before Scalise, the gangster king of the Building Service Union, was convicted of stealing members' dues, Green blandly asked Franklin Roosevelt to wipe out an earlier conviction for white-slaving so Scalise could apply for citizenship.

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