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...boxing stable has often contained upwards of 100 likely bullies. He sends them from city to city to meet other boxers and he usually guesses or knows how each match will come out. Successful fight betting has been not the least source of the Hoff fortune. The Hoff "mob" brings him much news from far places and when the young men are not fighting he keeps them busy driving trucks and whatnot...
...promoter must suffer. Once "Boo Boo" felt it would be good for his health to spend weeks and weeks indoors. When the danger, whatever it was, had passed "Boo Boo" turned up again at his old haunt, a multi-roomed suite in a Philadelphia hotel. Once again the "mob" made whoopee. Once again "Boo Boo" played emperor among his rabelaisian underlings and generous host to out-of-town visitors. Visiting sport-writers among whom "Boo Boo" is universally popular, often received bottles of whiskey soon after they register at their Philadelphia hotels. There is never any explanation of these presents...
Exile Blackmer's distaste for publicity was sharpened by an embarrassingly melodramatic account of his case which was published by La Presse (Paris mob journal). The details given by La Presse were such that they seemed to have come from Exile Blackmer himself. La Presse said that when Blackmer's passport was taken from him last year on a train between Nice and Marseilles, the U.S. consular agent who obtained the passport did so by the trick of impersonating a French police official. La Presse said that the agent slipped the passport out the train window...
That high mob-scorning redwood, that flowingly romantic verse, that Nominee-even famed Mark Sullivan, popular political commentator, tried and failed to explain what inner relation existed between them...
...When the mob's sentimental and superstitious demands for the exile of Claudia are brought to Cardinal Madruzzo, he exclaims in amazement and scorn: "I supposed that the people desired a material diminution of taxes, a free distribution of food. ... Go and tell them that Emanuel Madruzzo does not obey the orders of the mob...