Word: boo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister of War Colonel Carlos Guerrero relayed President Ayora 's query to minions. Officers of the Chimborazo battalion of engineers answered that they would like to revolt. Officers of the Bolivar battalion of artillery said they would like to participate in such a shindig. It was an effective boo. President Ayora ordered Congress convened to consider his "integrity." Congress decided his integrity was none of their business. There upon President Ayora proffered his resignation. Congress, unanimous except for President Manuel Navarro of the Chamber of Deputies, snatched the resignation. Left to preside over Ecuador was Colonel Luis Larrea Alba...
...suit brought against him by Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, promoter, for 25% ($526,812) of Fisticuffer Tunney's earnings, in return for alleged service's of "fixing" politicians, publicity "build ups" et al. (TIME, Nov. 17). Next week Fisticuffer Tunney will defend a similar suit brought by Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia "fixer...
...Tunney got "tied ... up for in Philadelphia" was sued for in 1927 by Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, potent Philadelphia racketeer. Hoff is reputed to have been promised $200,000 for supplying Tunney with a mysterious sort of "protection." That suit never went to trial...
...activities by the Russian Soviet in the U. S. Witnesses at their Manhattan hearings had told them they might see Red flags, hear juvenile profanity at the Communist-organized children's summer camps (TIME, July 28). Many a young Red nose was thumbed at them, many a hiss and boo was heard, but there were no Red flags and the newsgatherers who accompanied the Congressmen could not agree whether there was profanity...
...Francisco's Chinatown several years before the Civil War to protect its members from the invasion of competitors in business, from legal injustice (or justice). So effective was it that rival or imitative tongs were soon found wherever there were Chinese colonies. Tong leaders began employing hatchetmen (boo how doy), gun- men who managed the affairs of brainier tong leaders, terrorized respectable citizens, puzzled the constabulary. Gory, clever, macabre, the tong wars of the early twentieth century had much the same effect on the U. S. public as Chicago's gang-battles; they turned harmless laundrymen into homicidal maniacs from...