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Figures. Paramount figures in the inquiry have been Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, sports promoter and alleged bootleg tsar; Louis R. Elfman, onetime lieutenant of Hoff's who has turned State's evidence; Edward S. Goldberg, whose "Military Sales Co." sold machine guns and bulletproof vests to Hoff and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: In Philadelphia | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Skull. For those who are in any degree sophisticates, this murder mystery, of which the scene is a "deserted" church overpopulated with skull-headed bats and international criminals, will seem hardly more terrifying than a picture of Daddy Browning saying "Boo!" to an African gander. Those who are more willing shock-absorbers will conceivably shiver at its second-hand devices and be ready to believe that the door-slammings and women-screechings were really all part of a plan for trapping a desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

With an air of crying "Boo!" Sir William revealed that Scotland Yard had just rounded up a gang of Irish smugglers of arms, in London, and had traced banknotes found in their possession to "a Russian bank in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...famed William Somerset Maugham as an indictment of those unfortunate U. S. women who, by purchasing the titles of European nobility and then noisily misconducting themselves, seem less to deserve their elaborate and acquired nomenclature than the simple label slut. To this honking propaganda, a modern audience dares say "Boo!" The play is a rapidly ironic comedy of bad manners. Ina Claire lends it the exciting charm of her acting and her tireless beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...course a cow produces far more milk than that. A good one will give bout 25,000 Ibs. a year and feel proud. Yet Segis Pietertje Prospect, property of Carnation Stock Farm at Oconomowoc, Wis., might well boo at such normalcy. She has filled the pails with 37,381.4 Ibs. of milk in a single year-the world's record. She is a Holstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Goat Milk | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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