Word: hoff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Director Schofield asked Capone if he had met such notorious Philadelphians as Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff. Replied Capone: ";No, but I know them intimately...
...Armacost, g. g., Dunn, Salmon Boucher, c.pt. c.pt., Robinson Lotz, pt. pt., Kroell, Pickard Morris, 1d. 1d., Henderson, Amazeen, Marshall McLean, 2d. 2d., Faude, Burke Jones, 3d. 3d., Park, Cleary, Briggs Ziegler, c. c. Nido, Farrell Andrew, Purdy, Hinds, 3a. 3a., Glenn, Bissell Cross, 2a. 2a., Pope, Hobbs Pool, Hoff, 1a. 1a., McGuire, Wilkinson, Foshay Sping, o.h. o.h., Foshay, McGuire, Hodge Thomsen, l.h. l.h., Johnson, Shapiro...
Score--St. John's 12, Harvard 2. Goals--Thomsen 4, Pool 2, Hoff 2, Cross 2, Ziegler, and McLean, Johnson and Glenn. Referee--J. Slingluff of Johns Hopkins. Time--Two 30-minute periods...
...Hoff who had been characterized as the bootleg tsar, Borgian in intrigue, monstrously and illicitly wealthy. But he declared himself bankrupt. And his lawyer suggested lavish Hoff philanthropy. Students of the situation wondered whether the term "philanthropy" included the hundreds of Christmas turkeys that policemen had received from "Boo Boo" in recent years...
...meantime District Attorney Monaghan continued his examination of Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, alleged Master Mind of Philadelphia's underworld. There was much evidence of Mr. Hoff's Christmas largesse to sympathetic policemen. Eighteen pound turkeys were the gifts he chose, and he gave them in flocks. Turkeys mysteriously appeared on the doorstep of many an officer who had never met Mr. Hoff. In 1926, said District Attorney Monaghan, "Boo Boo" gave $250,000 worth of Christmas presents to policemen...