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Your sketch of Mr. J. J. Tunney's earnings 1926-27, and Mr. Mara's idea of the amount due him (TIME, Nov. 17), reminds me of the days when kings offered half their kingdoms- and now Mr. Hoff and his claim, if granted, would make Mr. Tunney's victories as expensive as the horse Richard III called...
These demands for services rendered and of promises to pay have a similitude to a Detroit hold-up or kidnapping rather than the result of Mr. Tunney's "facility of forgetting those who have been useful in the past...
...James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney; the suit brought against him by Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, promoter, for 25% ($526,812) of Fisticuffer Tunney's earnings, in return for alleged service's of "fixing" politicians, publicity "build ups" et al. (TIME, Nov. 17). Next week Fisticuffer Tunney will defend a similar suit brought by Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia "fixer...
...arranged to have Tunney received at the City Hall. That was to help build him up. Then I arranged a banquet in Tunney's honor at the Biltmore, attended by newspaper writers and officials. That was a promotion proposition. I arranged it and I paid...
...Tunney got "tied ... up for in Philadelphia" was sued for in 1927 by Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, potent Philadelphia racketeer. Hoff is reputed to have been promised $200,000 for supplying Tunney with a mysterious sort of "protection." That suit never went to trial...