Word: bootleg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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District Attorney John Monaghan continued, last week, his investigation of the Philadelphia bootleg ring. During six weeks of activity he has arrested 33 policemen, a member of the State Legislature, sundry racketeers. He has set political trouserlegs a-trembling, has looked suave, representative Philadelphians squarely in the eye. Once he hustled for 44 hours without sleep...
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...
...piece with garrulous South African traders who peddle reminiscence with their kitchenware. In pleasant 19th century cadences Mayer sets down the story of this Canot, Italian by birth, American by adoption, who sailed the last legal slaver before the trade was outlawed. Forced thereafter to bootleg his valuable black cargo, he practiced the proverbial sardine economy of space in his barracoon, packing his human loot spoon fashion, so that each wretch lay curved in his neighbor...
...Like bootleg champagne is the synthetic "diary" of a Soviet schoolboy,*** actually written by a Soviet schoolmaster. Though the perverse temptations of adolescence are decadently dwelt upon, the general picture of riotous, exuberant democracy in a Soviet schoolroom glows with the ruddy crudity of triumphant youth...
...Significance. Chicago's bootleg feuds, machine gun riots, gang run politics, are matter of course; but the inside story is still matter of conjecture. Author Kantor provides likely data for the conjecture, but his inside story is of an innocent accomplice who obeys with a thrill, and wonders what it is all about...