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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: In Philadelphia | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...days later His Majesty Tsar Boris called upon M. Liapchev to form another cabinet, for the usual reason: after other statesmen have had their try at assembling a Government, they are usually willing to compromise again on Liapchev. M. Liapchev duly formed another cabinet, but it, too, fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Usual Crisis | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...young, spirited, dynamic Finance Minister Montes de Oca has swallowed with such enthusiasm the Canadian doctor's bulky capsule: denationalization of railways. In Mexico, where advanced social theorizing is typical of even elder politicians, young Minister Montes de Oca might well have aspired to become a benevolent Railway Tsar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Canadian's Advice | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...meet the menace of the mail order houses. Two months ago, the dormant Rubber Institute was brought to life under the directorship of onetime Prohibition Commissioner Lincoln C. Andrews. Its first arresting act was the insertion, last week, of large advertisements in 400 daily newspapers. Speaking for 44 companies, Tsar Andrews pungently flayed the mileage guarantee. This practice, so profitable to mail order houses, was branded thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tires | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...place of this bitterly castigated sales promise, Tsar Andrews and his 44 companies offered a guarantee designed to sweep mail order house claims into oblivion. The Andrews guarantee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tires | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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