Word: hoff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
Evidence. District Attorney Monaghan pondered the welter of evidence. He loosed many suggestive statements to the press. Three wheelbarrow loads of bootleggers' accounts were found in Hoff's former offices, where the racketeers operated in the guise of an investment company. They showed that in five months a single distilling plant had paid $29,400 in police bribery. Monthly bribes of $800 were recorded as paid to one police official, while another received $10,000 in one month. Said Mr. Monaghan, "I know their names . . . highest police officials have been tainted." He estimated that the liquor traffickers...
Hunting the Mystery Man, the press followed several likely figures, with "Boo Boo" Hoff's name always to the fore. Mr. Hoff remained smilingly nonchalant. "If they get too hot," he said, "I'm going to do a little talking. And then we'll see what happens to Philadelphia...
...District Attorney Monaghan was describing "Boo Boo" Hoff without naming him-and he was-his "giant spider" simile was harsh but not inept. "Boo Boo" is a comfortably built gentleman with charming manners. He has a generous, thoughtful disposition. His taste in dressing gowns and girl friends is catholic. He is a born promoter, especially of versatile night clubs and small-time prize fights. He has at least $1,000,000 and likes to surround himself with strong-armed young men. The young men are pugilists professionally and "Boo Boo's" boxing stable has often contained upwards...
...Hoff can sympathize with Chicago's famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone in the matter of the risk and privations a big promoter must suffer. Once "Boo Boo" felt it would be good for his health to spend weeks and weeks indoors. When the danger, whatever it was, had passed "Boo Boo" turned up again at his old haunt, a multi-roomed suite in a Philadelphia hotel. Once again the "mob" made whoopee. Once again "Boo Boo" played emperor among his rabelaisian underlings and generous host to out-of-town visitors. Visiting sport-writers among whom "Boo Boo" is universally...