Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old artist, brush in hand, died of a heart attack. Last week one Felix Napoleon Gerson of Philadelphia wrote the New York Times that when he attempted one evening in 1883, to stare at the Nymphs and Satyr and use the Hoffman House alcohol cigaret lighter at the same time, the bartender called to him: "Say, young fellow, don't light your nose...
...Famed for his murder in 1872 of his friend Jim Fisk (Jay Gould's partner) after quarrels over bad business and bad, buxom Actress Josie Mansfield. Killer Stokes got off with four years in Sing Sing, emerged to buy control of the Hoffman House...
...York World-Telegram dug up the story, belatedly revealed that Poletti had not consulted the Parole Board. Things began to pop. The austere, thorough New York Times reported: "As one of his last acts in office, it was learned yesterday, Governor Poletti commuted the sentence of Alexander Hoffman, C.I.O. union official and Left Wing sympathizer, who was sentenced on Dec. 4, 1940, to four to eight years in Sing Sing for attempted arson . . . and conspiracy...
Editorially the World-Telegram bemoaned the "prison-opening impulses of transient, interim governors" and implied that by paroling Arsonist Hoffman, Poletti was currying Labor's favor "as a future political asset...
Hearst's Journal-American poured huge black headlines on Poletti. Out came Hoffman's record of arrests: felonious assault, 1929; assault, 1931; felonious assault, 1932; malicious mischief (planting "stink bombs"), 1937. The tabloid Daily News, strongly anti-New Deal, swung from the floor with a double-truck haymaker, telling how Hoffman, in 1940, was convicted for trying to start a fire in a non-union cleaning & dyeing plant by sending clothes in which had been hidden incendiary phosphorous pellets coated with paraffin (which would melt when heated during the cleaning process...