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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 »

...Allied with the law for the duration of the Shelton trial, Charles Birger, sleek, suave, smartly-tailored, stepped into the witness' box, said, "Howdy, Sheltons!" spent 20 minutes swearing away 25 years of three men's lives. Beneath his well-cut coat he wore a steel-vest, bulletproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Dodging Dynamiters | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Since 1923, when an assassin fired upon him, seeking to kill the Bismarck of Serbia, the windows of the limousine have been of bulletproof glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: National Crisis | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

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