Word: moe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publisher Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg of the Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Morning Telegraph and Daily Racing Form, purchased for $100,000 the $250,000 Pocono Mountain estate of the late Philadelphia transit tycoon, Thomas Eugene Mitten, who drowned there...
...city. Standard features a cheap encyclopedia. Into this they obligingly insert anything the buyer wishes to have appear. Thus the Philadelphia Inquirer is selling 200,000 volumes a week of the Standard American Encyclopedia whose A volume has a complimentary column-and-one-half biography of Publisher Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg. Hearst's New York Journal, selling the same encyclopedia, has in its volumes no word of Mr. Annenberg or his career, but it has got a nice item devoted to the word "neotrist,"† which they hired Lexicographer Charles Earle Funk to coin for them to describe...
Among those seeking justice at the august bar of the U. S. Supreme Court fortnight ago was a string of automobile accessory stores doing business under the corporate name, "The Pep Boys, Manny, Moe and Jack of California." The Pep Boys wanted to overthrow California's so-called Fair Trade Act, which forces retailers to maintain the price of trademarked goods at levels fixed by manufacturers. Challenged at the same time by other appellants was a similar Illinois statute. In a unanimous decision the Supreme Court turned down the Pep Boys, held that such price-maintenance legislation by states...
...Supreme Court of California had ruled that "there is nothing in the State statutes prohibiting pawnbrokers and personal property brokers from charging any rate of interest they please." Big fiction feature of The Pawnbrokers' Journal was "A Fair Exchange" by Harry Irving Shumway. This story opens with Pawnbroker Moe Epstein appraising a diamond for his friend Marcus. Says Moe: "A full quarter of a carat but the dirtiest diamond I ever see. Nine dollars is the very positive limit." Marcus offers to trade the diamond for a tray of fountain pens, then balks because the pens appear...
...potent Republican sheets, Moe Annenberg's Philadelphia Inquirer, Harry Chandler's Los Angeles Times, and the Detroit Free Press have been outstanding members of the McCormick school of damnation. The late, loud Frederick...