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...SPIDER BOY−Carl Van Vechten−Knopf...
...Master Mind." Melodramatic, Attorney Monaghan pictured a Master Mind of the liquor ring, a Kenesaw Mountain Landis of bootlegging, a racketeering Will H. Hays. "He is like a giant spider in the middle of a great web with eyes in front and behind. A man who sees everything, knows everything and controls everything in the underworld," said Mr. Monaghan, but did not name any name. The diversion of 350,000 gallons of pure grain alcohol from Philadelphia throughout the land was described as the Master Mind's greatest recent coup. In addition to being the upkeeper...
...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...
When a man sprays himself with the perfume of wood violets and puts on a brilliant cravat he becomes the object of scorn. Such a man is the notorious, fat, spider-like Bela Kun. For 143 days during 1919 he was the atrociously cruel Communist Dictator of Hungary. Today he is mortally hated and feared by the whole Hungarian people and suspected of plotting to overthrow the present reactionary Hungarian Government and the conservative Government of Austria...
...that the county solicitor could complain of, however, was the gentleman's reputation. He, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, is notorious as, but not legally recorded as, the fattest spider in the web of Chicago's criminal underworld. All that the Miami officials could do was explain to Mr. Capone that people did not like his looks and advise him to leave town. Mr. Capone, who has been ordered and ushered out of Los Angeles, Kansas City and many another city besides his own Chicago,* told the Miamians that he had done no wrong and would leave Miami...